Harvey Wasserman's History of the United StatesHarper & Row, 1975 - 262 pages |
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Page 26
... machine ; in Ohio it was James Foraker and Mark Hanna ; in California it was the Octopus . Pennsylvania passed from Simon Cameron and Mat- thew Quay to Tom Scott to Standard Oil , which , complained ... Machines , like that 26 THE MACHINE.
... machine ; in Ohio it was James Foraker and Mark Hanna ; in California it was the Octopus . Pennsylvania passed from Simon Cameron and Mat- thew Quay to Tom Scott to Standard Oil , which , complained ... Machines , like that 26 THE MACHINE.
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... MACHINE The American industrial machine was clearly becoming the biggest in the world . Each landmark of growth , each statistic of wealth , was hailed by the barons with excitement and pride . Upon completion of the transcontinental ...
... MACHINE The American industrial machine was clearly becoming the biggest in the world . Each landmark of growth , each statistic of wealth , was hailed by the barons with excitement and pride . Upon completion of the transcontinental ...
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... machine kept churning out dollars . As a linear rather than a cyclical device , the profit system found it better to waste and destroy than to conserve and reuse . The natural continent went in one end of the money machine a whole ...
... machine kept churning out dollars . As a linear rather than a cyclical device , the profit system found it better to waste and destroy than to conserve and reuse . The natural continent went in one end of the money machine a whole ...
Contents
The Robber Barons | 3 |
The People | 52 |
The Revolt of the Farmers | 61 |
Copyright | |
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