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Biographies

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The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman
Author: Maury Klein
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Recent major biographies about various so-called Robber Barons, such as John D. Rockefeller and John Pierpont Morgan, while perhaps not completely revisionist, have certainly put their subjects in a more sympathetic light. Klein now accomplishes the same feat with his portrait of controversial railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman. Harriman took over and revitalized a bankrupt Union Pacific Railroad Company starting in 1898, and ultimately acquired stakes in the Southern Pacific and the Baltimore & Ohio. His failed clash with James J. Hill over the Northern Pacific precipitated a major financial crisis in 1901, and Harriman stirred the bitter enmity of Theodore Roosevelt. Klein already similarly profiled the life and legend of Jay Gould in 1986, and he is a respected chronicler of railroad history and the Civil War. The only other major biography of Harriman was George Kennan's two-volume work published in 1922. Klein begins with a prologue describing Kennan's difficulties in completing that work. With access to Kennan's papers and interviews, Klein masterfully recounts Harriman's saga and proclaims his legacy. David Rouse
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The Life and Legend of Jay Gould
Author: Maury Klein
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Press

Now in paperback -- the lively and widely acclaimed biography of Jay Gould, often called the most despicable and unscrupulous of the Robber Barons.
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