Edison to Enron
Robert L. Bradley
The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the electricity industry in the U.S. are scarce. Edison to Enron is a readable flowing history of two of America's largest and most colorful industries.
It begins with the story of Samuel Insull, a poor boy from England, who started his career as Thomas Edison's right-hand man, then went on his own and became one of America's top industrialists. But when Insull's General Electric's energy empire collapsed during the Great Depression, the hitherto Great ... Read more
To connect the lives of these two energy giants, Edison to Enron takes the reader through the flamboyant history of the American energy industry, from Texas wildcatters to the great pipeline builders to the Washington wheeler-dealers.
From the Reviews...
"This scholarly work fills in much missing history about two of America's most important industries, electricity and natural gas."
—Joseph A. Pratt, NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business, University of Houston
"... a remarkable book on the political inner workings of the U.S. energy industry."
—Robert Peltier, PE, Editor-in-Chief, POWER Magazine
"This is a powerful story, brilliantly told."
—Forrest McDonald, Historian
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