Maury Klein, Author . Oxford Univ. $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-19-513516-9
The first serious account of the Crash of 1929 was Only Yesterday, by Frederick Lewis Allen, published less than two years after the event and still in print. Disappointingly, Klein's effort is almost a chapter-by-chapter retelling of Only...
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THE CHANGE MAKERS: From Carnegie to Gates, How Great Entrepreneurs Transformed Ideas into Industries
Maury Klein, Author . Holt/Times $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6914-3
"The watershed event in American history is not the Civil War but the industrial and managerial revolutions of the late nineteenth century," asserts Klein (Rainbow's End) in this lively survey of influential American entrepreneurs. He...
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Maury Klein, Author . Bloomsbury $29.95 (543p) ISBN 978-1-59691-412-4
In an ambitious and expansive narrative, Klein (Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929
) chronicles the advent of steam power and the electrification of America. Klein’s descriptions of the science of steam power, beginning with James Watt,...
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Maury Klein, Author Ivan R. Dee Publisher $22.5 (224p) ISBN 978-1-56663-029-0
As corporations came to dominate American life in the second half of the 19th century, individualism remained ``the most prized virtue of our folklore.'' But in reality, asserts Klein, big corporations, lobbies, political machines and professional...
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Maury Klein, Author Johns Hopkins University Press $45 (614p) ISBN 978-0-8018-2880-5
His own and succeeding generations called him a robber baron, Wall Street shark, a secretive lone wolf brokering power and influence through his rail and communications empire. But Gould, according to Klein, has been unfairly cast as the villain of...
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Maury Klein, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (512p) ISBN 978-0-679-44747-4
""How could the oldest, deadliest, most divisive conflict of a proud nation come down, after decades of bitter strife, to a dispute over an insignificant fort squatting on a hunk of rock in the harbor of the South's oldest and most defiant city?""...
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Maury Klein, Author University of North Carolina Press $39.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-8078-2517-4
""My time,"" Edward Henry Harriman once said, ""is worth a mule a minute."" It was a rare understatement. Known as ""the Colossus of [Rail]Roads,"" having transformed himself at age 50 from Wall Street banker to audacious transcontinental octopus,...
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Maury Klein. Bloomsbury, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-63286-024-8
Historian Klein (Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929) offers a thorough account of the 1911 New York Giants. That team, led by future Hall of Fame manager John McGraw, stole 347 bases in one season—a record likely to stand forever. As a player/manager (
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Maury Klein. Bloomsbury, $40 (912p) ISBN 978-1-59691-607-4
It’s hard to imagine how a book about the sudden wartime awakening of an industrial power could be fast-paced and readable. Yet Klein (The Power Makers), an experienced historian of the 20th-century American economy (he’s professor emeritus of...
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