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Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900
by Kessner, Thomas
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0684813513
- ISBN 13
- 9780684813516
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2003. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 416 p. Illustrations. From the publisher's website: "At the beginning of the nineteenth century, New York City was an undistinguished town, competing with Philadelphia and Boston to be America's dominant port city. Just two generations later, it had built itself into the country's powerhouse center of trade and finance, rivaled only by London as financial capital of the world. In Capital City, Thomas Kessner tells the story of this remarkable transformation. With the advantages of its famous harbor and the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, New York became the chief commercial center for the growing nation. As the shipping industry prospered, capital accumulated, and a banking center emerged, New York went on to finance the Union cause during the Civil War, open the West to development, and consolidate the national railroad system. The city's energy and opportunity attracted ambitious men from all over the country whose names became synonymous with business: Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan."
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
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- Title
- Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900
- Author
- Kessner, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0684813513
- ISBN 13
- 9780684813516
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, James Fisk, Jay Gould, Andrew Greeley, John Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, Jacob Schiff, Alexander Stewart, Tammany Hall, Samuel Tilden
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