Iron Empires by Michael Hiltzik

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/153819 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Iron Empires Author: Michael Hiltzik Narrator: Nicholas Tecoksy Format: mp3 Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins Release date: 08-11-20 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 35 ratings Genres: Economic History Publisher's Summary: In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. The vicious competition between empire builders such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, and E. H. Harriman sparked stock market frenzies, panics, and crashes; provoked strikes; transformed the nation's geography; and culminated in a ferocious two-man battle....