Ebook: The associates: four capitalists who created California
Author: Central Pacific Railroad Company, Crocker Charles, Hopkins Mark, Huntington Collis Potter, Stanford Leland, Rayner Richard
- Tags: Capitalists and financiers--United States, Eisenbahn, Railroads--History.--United States, Unternehmer, Railroads--United States--History, Railroads, Capitalists and financiers, History, Biographies, Biography, Huntington Collis Potter -- 1821-1900, Stanford Leland -- 1824-1893, Hopkins Mark -- 1813-1878, Crocker Charles -- 1822-1888, Central Pacific Railroad Company -- History, Central Pacific Railroad Company, Railroads -- United States -- History, Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biograph
- Series: Enterprise (New York N.Y.)
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- City: New York;California;Kalifornien;United States
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
One hundred and forty years ago, four men rose from their position as middle-class merchants to become robber barons and, in the end, civilization-creating philanthropists. Their names were Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins, and they were known as "The Big Four," or "The Associates." Their moneymaker was the building of the transcontinental railroad, but what stands out in their story is how smarts, rapacity, and sheer luck characterized the dizzy growth of California. Buccaneers of the untrammeled capitalism of the Gilded Age, the four nevertheless left behind a legacy of philanthropy and cultural institutions that has made California the capital of the American West. Having written about confidence artists in earlier books, author Rayner has a knack for detecting the fraudulence that so often lurks behind business success. This is a fresh retelling of a quintessentially American story.--From publisher description.
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