Union Pacific: Volume II, 1894-1969
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (934 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816644608 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 676 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Maury Klein (B.A. Klein has also appeared on documentaries on the BBC and PBS, among other networks. He has published 13 books and his numerous articles have appeared in Forbes, City, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, American History Illustrated, Sports Illustrated, and Civil War Times Illustrated. Knox College, M.A., Ph.D. Emory University) has been a professor of history at the University of Rhode Island since 1964, receiving a Doctor of Humanities degree and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Knox College in 2001. . Klein has been a Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School and held a Mellon Fellowship at Hagley Museum and Library
"Be warned, this not a book about the operation" according to Frank E. Tippin. Be warned, this not a book about the operation of the UP. It about ownership and their management of the growth and development of the Union Pacific as well as relations with the government. This volume begins with the falling into receivership, settling of government debt and takeover by E.H. Harriman. It includes the purchase of the Southern Pacific, building the Lucin Cutoff, response to San Francisco earthquake, th. Everything you ever wanted to know about E H Harriman Out of the three books written by Professor Klein on the UP this was the more interesting one to me. Similar to his first book the author explores the personalities and politics of running this railroad in particular and railroads in general. Among other things it covers the time period around WW I when the federal government took over control of all the railroads.. Frank T. Manheim said Revisionism applied to history. I regret having to provide a different picture of this history of the Union Pacific than the favorable reviewers. Maury Klein is a skilled writer, but he is among a small group of "revisionist" historians who arose in the 1980s and have resurrected the robber barons of the Gilded Age, like the ruthless financier, Jay Gould, as visionary business leaders. I'll try to explain later why and how such perspectives may have
Klein has also appeared on documentaries on the BBC and PBS, among other networks. Klein has been a Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School and held a Mellon Fellowship at Hagley Museum and Library. Emory University) has been a professor of history at the University of Rhode Island since 1964, receiving a Doctor of Humanities degree and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Knox College in 2001. He has
The second volume in the history of the Union Pacific begins after the financial panic of 1893, one of the worst depressions Americans had yet experienced, which pushed the railroad into bankruptcy. Union Pacific has remained one of the strongest railroads in the country, surviving the eras of government regulation and the corporate mergers of the past twenty-five years. Harriman, the Union Pacific again played the role of industrial pioneer. Insightful, definitive in scope, rich in colorful ane