Iron Empires: Robber Barons, the Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Hiltzik

Iron Empires: Robber Barons, the Railroads, and the Making of Modern America

Michael Hiltzik

448 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
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Iron Empires tells the story of the men who created the all-important nationwide railroad system that spread across the country during the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century - a time where industrialisation accelerated, fortunes were made a...

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