The life & legend of E.H. Harriman /
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, Carnegi...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2000], ©2000
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Prologue: Mr. Kennan writes a biography
- Duchy, 1848--1898: Sources of pride and strength
- Sources of advancement
- Sources of growth
- Sources of education
- Sources of revelation
- Sources of opportunity
- Kingdom, 1898--1900: Going west
- Going for broke
- Going modern
- Going back together
- Going elsewhere
- Going north
- Empire, 1900--1904
- Seeking order
- Seeking an advantage
- Seeking trump
- Seeking hegemony
- Seeking the perfect machine
- Seeking the perfect organization
- Seeking the world
- Seeking relief
- Immolation, 1904--1909
- Fighting the tide
- Fighting formidable foes
- Fighting others' fights
- Fighting a former friend
- Fighting a formidable friend
- Fighting nature
- Fighting for survival
- Fighting back
- Fighting the inevitable
- Epilogue: the good that men do
- Notes
- Index