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| Titre : | American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 |
| Auteurs : | H. Brands |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | [S.l.] : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-385-52333-2 |
| Résumé : |
"From Publishers WeeklyIn this timely study, University of Texas historian Brands (Traitor to His Class) describes the rise of the great corporate capitalists after the Civil War. J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie constituted an trinity of power-obsessed individuals who instinctively understood that wealth was the ultimate political weapon. They defined the cold-blooded authority of big business. Fascinating detours away from the tale of corporate empires examine the Reconstruction process in the South, the Indian Wars of the West, the opening of the Great Plains, immigration in the East, and the rise of organized labor and the agrarian reformers. Effectively, excerpts from the first-person accounts of Booker T. Washington, Black Elk, Jacob Riis, and others convey the drama of the time. Perhaps the only significant omission in this fast-paced, engrossing narrative is a tendency to dwell on political doctrines that sought to repudiate or restrain capitalism while only briefly discussing the dogma of Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism,┬áwhich favored the monopolists. ReviewPraise for American Colossus ""Mr. Brands, a terrific writer who commands his material, handles this sprawling, complicated story with authority and panache. A book that might have been a worthy but boring tome turns out to be as close as serious history gets to a page turner...._American Colossus_ is a first-rate overview of one of the most important periods in American history, one without which the American Century could not have happened."" ""A superb new historyÔǪ.This is a big, brash narrative running from the Confederate surrender at Appomattox to the trust busting of Theodore RooseveltÔǪ.I read swaths of this book twice, just to savor BrandsÔÇÖ storytelling and mastery of detail."" ""Mr. Brands paints a vivid portrait of both this understudied age and those industrialists still introduced by high school teachers as ÔÇÿrobber baronsÔÇÖ: Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. MorganÔǪ.As Mr. Brands relates the tycoonsÔÇÖ stories, he drops some anecdotes wonderfully relevant today."" _""An excellent bookÔǪ.H. W. Brands is a smart, lively writerÔǪ [who] demonstrates, as the best historians do, that past is prologue."" Praise for The Age of Gold Praise for Traitor to His Class ÔÇ£H. W. Brands has accomplished a remarkable feat in this terrific workÔǪ. He has brought to vivid life the central figures in his story . . . while at the same time providing a fresh understanding of the rich historical context for their thoughts and actions at every step along the way.ÔÇØ Praise for _The First American ÔÇ£H. W. Brands has given us the authoritative Franklin biography for our time.ÔÇØ ÔÇ£A biography with a rich cast of secondary characters and a large and handsome stock of historical sceneryÔǪThis is a Franklin to savor.ÔÇØ |
