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Author: Dennis Drabelle Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250015057 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 314
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How two of America's greatest authors took on the Central Railroad monopoly The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. In The Great American Railroad War, Dennis Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen. The Central Pacific Railroad accepted US Government loans; but, when the loans fell due, the last surviving founder of the railroad avoided repayment. Bierce, at the behest of his boss William Randolph Hearst, swung into action writing over sixty stinging articles that became a signal achievement in American journalism. Later, Norris focused the first volume of his trilogy, The Octopus, on the freight cars of a thinly disguised version of the Central Pacific. The Great American Railroad War is a lively chapter of US history pitting two of America's greatest writers against one of America's most powerful corporations. "Readers with interests in western American history or the origins of today’s political quagmires will find much to relish. " - Publishers Weekly
Author: Dennis Drabelle Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250015057 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
How two of America's greatest authors took on the Central Railroad monopoly The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. In The Great American Railroad War, Dennis Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen. The Central Pacific Railroad accepted US Government loans; but, when the loans fell due, the last surviving founder of the railroad avoided repayment. Bierce, at the behest of his boss William Randolph Hearst, swung into action writing over sixty stinging articles that became a signal achievement in American journalism. Later, Norris focused the first volume of his trilogy, The Octopus, on the freight cars of a thinly disguised version of the Central Pacific. The Great American Railroad War is a lively chapter of US history pitting two of America's greatest writers against one of America's most powerful corporations. "Readers with interests in western American history or the origins of today’s political quagmires will find much to relish. " - Publishers Weekly
Author: Richard Maxwell Brown Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806126180 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 284
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In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the West’s first notable "walkdown." One hundred and twenty-nine years later, Bernard Goetz shot four threatening young men in a New York subway car. Apart from gunfire, what do the two events have in common? Goetz, writes Richard Maxwell Brown, was acquitted of wrongdoing in the spirit of a uniquely American view of self-defense, a view forged in frontier gunfights like Hickok’s. When faced with a deadly threat, we have the right to stand our ground and fight. We have no duty to retreat.
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics Publisher: Chicago, University Press [1912] ISBN: Category : Cataloging, Cooperative Languages : en Pages : 464
Author: Dennis Drabelle
Author: Dennis Drabelle
Author: Richard Maxwell Brown
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
Author: Frederick Albert Cleveland
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
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