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  • Spanning the Gilded Age

    James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge

    by John K. Brown ...
    Series series Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics
    The fascinating history of the St. Louis Bridge, the first steel structure in the world.Winner of the 2025 Captain Donald T. Wright Award for Maritime Journalism and Literature by the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways LibraryIn Spanning the Gilded Age, John K. Brown tells the daring, improbable story of the construction of the St. Louis Bridge, known popularly as the Eads Bridge. Completed ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The First Tycoon

    The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by T.J. Stiles ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIn this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual to create modern capitalism. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The First Tycoon ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Tycoons

    How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

    by Charles R. Morris ...
    "Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."—The Christian Science MonitorThe modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Meet You in Hell

    Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America

    by Les Standiford ...
    Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price.“Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today“The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami HeraldThe author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry C... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Great Railroad Revolution

    The History of Trains in America

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    The captivating story of how trains shaped American history“Wolmar’s sweeping history of railroads in America is rich in drama.” —The New YorkerAmerica was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Wedding of the Waters

    The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation

    by Peter L. Bernstein ...
    **New York Times BestsellerThe epic account of how one narrow ribbon of water forever changed the course of American history.**The history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon, soon turned into one of the most successful and influential public ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Transportation and the American People

    by H. Roger Grant ...
    This "outstanding contribution to transportation history" chronicles the evolution of American mobility from stagecoaches to buses and airplanes ( Choice).Transportation is the unsung hero of American history. Stagecoaches, waterways, canals, railways, busses, and airplanes revolutionized much more than just the way people got around; they transformed the economic, political, and social aspects of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Western Railway of Canada

    Southern Ontario’s Pioneer Railway

    by David R.P. Guay ...
    A look back on the brief and spectacular history of Canada’s Great Western Railway.This book chronicles the genesis and all-too-brief existence of one of Canada’s greatest early railways, the Great Western Railway of Canada (1853–1882), a major precursor to the Canadian National Rail system.Today, the Great Western Railway of Canada is a little-known historic line, overlooked even by many railway ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Commodore

    The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

    by Edward J. Renehan Jr. ...
    Armed with a trove of previously unreleased archives, Edward J. Renehan Jr. offers a compelling portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built large shipping and rail enterprises into cornerstones of the American economy, and amassed one of the greatest fortunes the world has ever known. This is the definitive biography of a man whose influence on American business was unsurpassed in his day -- or ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Railroads and the American People

    by H. Roger Grant ...
    Series series Railroads Past and Present
    "[A] wealth of vignettes and more than 100 black-and-white illustrations . . . Does a fine job of humanizing the iron horse" ( The Wall Street Journal).In this social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant concentrates on the railroad's "golden age," from 1830 to 1930. He explores four fundamental topics—trains and travel, train stations, railroads and community life, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grand Central Terminal

    Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City

    by Kurt C. Schlichting ...
    More than a history of a train station—the story of a city and an age, as reflected in a building aptly described as a secular cathedral.Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award in Architecture from the Association of American PublishersGrand Central Terminal, one of New York City's preeminent buildings, stands as a magnificent Beaux-Arts monument to America's Railway Age, and it ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Great American Railroad Journeys

    by Michael Portillo ...
    Great American Railroad Journeys sees the famous brand of social-history-cum-travelogue venture to the New World. Across multiple programmes and using Appleton's General Guide To The United States & Canada as reference, Michael Portillo now undertakes an epic trip by train from New York and Boston on the East Coast down to the Deep South of Atlanta and New Orleans, then on to Chicago, Colorado, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD