Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900 by Thomas Kessner

Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900

Thomas Kessner

416 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction business history informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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