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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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Stephens was the president of the railroad, which was a wholly American-owned stock company with its main office in the old Tontine Building on Wall Street. The capitalization was a million dollars.
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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Hill even plowed $25,000 into the faltering New York Times. All across the GN empire, Jim Hill’s private car became a landmark, frequently only a mythical landmark, pulled up on sidings from Fargo to Olympia, Washington—there to dictate policy regarding rail regulation and other pressing issues. He was becoming a legend in his own time, an ogre to
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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
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Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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