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Description for Union Pacific
Hardback. The book shows how Union Pacific continues to succeed even as passenger trains have all but disappeared, proving that we still live in a Railroad Age. Num Pages: 520 pages, 51 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; HBLX; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 166 x 34. Weight in Grams: 908.
Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific--the oldest, largest, and most successful railroad of modern times--fully up to date. The book follows the trajectory of an icon of the industrial age trying to negotiate its way in a post-railway world, plagued by setbacks such as labor disputes, aging infrastructure, government de-regulation, ill-fated mergers, and more. By 1969 the same company that a century ... Read more
Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific--the oldest, largest, and most successful railroad of modern times--fully up to date. The book follows the trajectory of an icon of the industrial age trying to negotiate its way in a post-railway world, plagued by setbacks such as labor disputes, aging infrastructure, government de-regulation, ill-fated mergers, and more. By 1969 the same company that a century ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195369892
SKU
V9780195369892
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Ref
99-8
About Maury Klein
Maury Klein is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Rhode Island and the author of many books, including The Power Makers.
Reviews for Union Pacific
Mr. Klein has written thoroughly researched and scrupulously objective biographies of the previously much maligned Jay Gould and E.H. Harriman, remaking their public images by presenting them in full. Now he has published the third and final volume of his magisterial history of the Union Pacific railroad, taking the company from 1969 to the present day.
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