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21 wrz 2012 · Richard White has written a detailed history about the ruthless, unprincipled, conniving men who built transcontinental railroads or, more accurately, created them from complex financing schemes.
5 lut 2020 · With characteristic originality, range, and authority, Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike, robber barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here.
27 mar 2012 · Richard White is the author of many acclaimed histories, including the groundbreaking study of the transcontinentals, Railroaded, winner of the LA Times Book Prize and a Pulitzer Prize...
In Railroaded, Richard White gives a comprehensive account of the economic, social, and political aspects of transcontinental railroads. The book is based on a deep reading of the sources and is a must read for anyone interested in transportation and the development of the American economy.
Railroaded offers flabbergasting views of the human talent for self-justification and contradiction, provides a valuable—if unsettling—comparison to the financial troubles of our times, and shows why the best historians are compared to detectives.
1 sty 2011 · Richard White has provided a near-encyclopedic historical monograph on the building, sustaining, and fall of the American transcontinental railroads, from the Civil War to the end of the Gilded Age.
11 lip 2011 · 'Railroaded' September 6, 2011 - KQED Forum. In his new book, Stanford history professor Richard White writes that some of the tycoons that built the transcontinental railroad system were corrupt, caused economic and environmental ruin and abused government subsidies.
