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Great Persuader : The Biography of Collis P. Huntington

by David Lavender

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0870814761
ISBN-13 9780870814761
Publisher University Press of Colorado
Imprint University Press of Colorado
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jan 15th, 1999
Print length 444 Pages
Weight 720 grams
Dimensions 22.60 x 15.30 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification: Biography: business & industryBiography: business and industryEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship / Start-upsTransport industriesRailway transport industries
Ksh 5,200.00
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The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all-Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, California, storekeeper who, along with Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins, parlayed $1,500 into America's first continental railroad.
The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all-Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, California, storekeeper who, along with Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins, parlayed $1,500 into America''s first continental railroad. It is an almost unbelievable story of a high dream of fortune realized through highhanded practices-an adventure which left the national treasury poorer by millions of swindled dollars, and America itself richer by a national railroad system which contributed greatly to the country''s westward expansion.

How did Huntington operate? What were his methods? Was he corrupt? These are questions that were previously unanswered but thanks to the cooperation of the Huntington family who supplied Mr. Lavender with material that had never before been made public, Lavender shows just how Collis P. Huntington operated-and it was defintely outside the law, although well inside the prevailing morality of his time. It shows his complicated dealings with Sanford Hopkins, how he bested such tycoons as Thomas A. Scott, John C. Durrant, Oliver Ames and Jay Gould, how Huntington accumulated the great fortune which was the legacy to his family, and how his great railroad network was to prove an unparalleled legacy to all Americans. The Great Persuader is a powerful story of a remarkable man whose singleness of purpose and ruthless manipulation of men and money propelled the great enterprise forward against all odds.

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