Author: Balthasar Henry Meyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Hour of Fate
Author: Susan Berfield
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635572479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue, and two of American history's most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality. It seemed like no force in the world could slow J. P. Morgan's drive to power. In the summer of 1901, the financier was assembling his next mega-deal: Northern Securities, an enterprise that would affirm his dominance in America's most important industry-the railroads. Then, a bullet from an anarchist's gun put an end to the business-friendly presidency of William McKinley. A new chief executive bounded into office: Theodore Roosevelt. He was convinced that as big business got bigger, the government had to check the influence of the wealthiest or the country would inch ever closer to collapse. By March 1902, battle lines were drawn: the government sued Northern Securities for antitrust violations. But as the case ramped up, the coal miners' union went on strike and the anthracite pits that fueled Morgan's trains and heated the homes of Roosevelt's citizens went silent. With millions of dollars on the line, winter bearing down, and revolution in the air, it was a crisis that neither man alone could solve. Richly detailed and propulsively told, The Hour of Fate is the gripping story of a banker and a president thrown together in the crucible of national emergency even as they fought in court. The outcome of the strike and the case would change the course of our history. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan's time are more urgent than ever. Winner of the 2021 Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize Finalist for the Presidential Leadership Book Award
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635572479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue, and two of American history's most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality. It seemed like no force in the world could slow J. P. Morgan's drive to power. In the summer of 1901, the financier was assembling his next mega-deal: Northern Securities, an enterprise that would affirm his dominance in America's most important industry-the railroads. Then, a bullet from an anarchist's gun put an end to the business-friendly presidency of William McKinley. A new chief executive bounded into office: Theodore Roosevelt. He was convinced that as big business got bigger, the government had to check the influence of the wealthiest or the country would inch ever closer to collapse. By March 1902, battle lines were drawn: the government sued Northern Securities for antitrust violations. But as the case ramped up, the coal miners' union went on strike and the anthracite pits that fueled Morgan's trains and heated the homes of Roosevelt's citizens went silent. With millions of dollars on the line, winter bearing down, and revolution in the air, it was a crisis that neither man alone could solve. Richly detailed and propulsively told, The Hour of Fate is the gripping story of a banker and a president thrown together in the crucible of national emergency even as they fought in court. The outcome of the strike and the case would change the course of our history. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan's time are more urgent than ever. Winner of the 2021 Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize Finalist for the Presidential Leadership Book Award
A History of the Northern Securities Case
Author: Balthasar Henry Meyer
Publisher:
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Category : Holding companies
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Publisher:
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Category : Holding companies
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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A List of Books
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Law and Economic Policy in America
Author: William Letwin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226473536
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
William Letwin's thorough, carefully argued, and elegantly written work is the only book length study of the Sherman Antitrust Act, a law designed to shape the economic life of a large complex society through maintaining the "correct" level of competition in the economy. This is a superb history and complete analysis of the Act, from its English and American common law antecedents to the events that led to the first revisions of the Act in the form of the Clayton Antitrust and Federal Trade Commission Acts.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226473536
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
William Letwin's thorough, carefully argued, and elegantly written work is the only book length study of the Sherman Antitrust Act, a law designed to shape the economic life of a large complex society through maintaining the "correct" level of competition in the economy. This is a superb history and complete analysis of the Act, from its English and American common law antecedents to the events that led to the first revisions of the Act in the form of the Clayton Antitrust and Federal Trade Commission Acts.
Select List of Works Relating to Taxation of Inheritances and of Incomes
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
Publisher:
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Category : Income tax
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Income tax
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Political Deceptions and Delusions
Author: Thomas Carl Spelling
Publisher:
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Category : Carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Publisher:
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Category : Carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power
Author: United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee
Publisher:
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Category : Big business
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Publisher:
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Category : Big business
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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The Supreme Court in United States History
Author: Charles Warren
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1594
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1592
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