Maury Klein: 9 books
The Power Makers
Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Maury Klein is one of America's most acclaimed historians of business and society. In The Power Makers, he offers an epic narrative of his greatest subject yet - the "power revolution" that transformed American life in the course of the nineteenth century. The steam engine; the incandescent...
Union Pacific
The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific--the oldest, largest, and most...
Days of Defiance
Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
“Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholarship.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer
In November 1860, telegraph lines carried the news that Abraham Lincoln had been elected president. Over the next five months the United States drifted, stumbled,...
The Change Makers
From Carnegie to Gates, How the Great Entrepreneurs Transformed Ideas into Industries
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
From one of America's foremost business historians, a penetrating and engaging look at the qualities that create great entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs, even more than inventors, are essential to American business. While inventors produce ideas, entrepreneurs get things done, build the markets,...
by Maury Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
After the Civil War, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world wars, federal government control, internal crises, external dissension, the Depression, and the great Ohio River flood...
A Call to Arms
Mobilizing America for World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war...
Stealing Games
How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of...
by Maury Klein
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E. H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. Like his fellow businessmen, Harriman (1847-1909) had become the symbol for an entire industry: Morgan stood for banking, Rockefeller for oil, Carnegie...
Rainbow's End : The Crash of 1929
The Crash of 1929
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2001
The first major history of the Crash in over a decade, Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe. The book offers a vibrant picture...