Concentrating on presidents and cabinet members, from the birth of the US through the Carter administration, this book tells how they and their associates gained and lost wealth, and how this affected the US's well-being.
Concentrating on presidents and cabinet members, from the birth of the US through the Carter administration, this book tells how they and their associates gained and lost wealth, and how this affected the US's well-being.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Richard Lawrence Miller is a retired community organizer and public radio producer. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 Colonial Antecedents Revolution Frontier Real Estate Constitution Chapter 2 Banks Whiskey Rebellion Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures Jay Treaty XYZ Affair Chapter 3 Louisiana Purchase Burr Murders Hamilton War of 1812 Internal Improvements Banks Again Chapter 4 American Indians in the Jackson Era Tippecanoe And Tyler, Too Mexican War Chapter 5 California Gold Quicksilver Slavery Worker Rights Chapter 6 Transportation Cotton Railroads Civil War Real Estate Chapter 7 Abraham Lincoln's Estate Andrew Johnson Impeachment Presidency of Grant Election of 1876 Rutherford Hayes Chapter 8 Pennsylvania Railroad Marine Industry James Garfield Robert Lincoln Pullman Railroad Cars Chapter 9 Chester Arthur Young Theodore Roosevelt Grover Cleveland Tobacco Railroads Again Chapter 10 Sherman Anti-Trust Law Lumber Benjamin Harrison Alaskan Seals Closing the Frontier Chapter 11 Department Stores and Mail Order Houses Telegraph and Telephone Gas Electricity The Cross of Gold Chapter 12 William McKinley Private Clubs China Chapter 13 Theodore Roosevelt Steel Panic of 1907 Northern Securities Santa Fe Railroad Meat Kuhn, Loeb Bank Panama Canal Chapter 14 William Howard Taft Philippines Bull Moose Campaign Woodrow Wilson National City Bank Mexico World War I World War I Finance Chapter 15 Herbert Hoover Election of 1920 Warren G. Harding Newspapers Insurance Chapter 16 "Mellon's Millions" Aluminum Banking Coal Oil Teapot Dome Chapter 17 Calvin Coolidge Dawes' Dollars Stock Market Crash FDR Atomic Energy Chapter 18 Harry Truman Eisenhower Tidelands Oil Dixon-Yates Contract Hanna Mining Chapter 19 General Motors World War I Strikes Again J.P. Stevens Cuba Chapter 20 JFK Motion Pictures Real Estate Textiles Insurance Again Chapter 21 Aviation Automobiles Marine Industry Again Rockefeller Foundation Chapter 22 LBJ Brown & Root Real Estate Broadcasting Chapter 23 Richard Nixon Chile China Again Gerald Ford Chapter 24 Jimmy Carter Coca-Cola Aviation Again Banks Yet Again Lumber Again Coal Again The Carter Administration Summed Up Epilogue: A Shadow on the Wall Notes Works Cited Index
Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 Colonial Antecedents Revolution Frontier Real Estate Constitution Chapter 2 Banks Whiskey Rebellion Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures Jay Treaty XYZ Affair Chapter 3 Louisiana Purchase Burr Murders Hamilton War of 1812 Internal Improvements Banks Again Chapter 4 American Indians in the Jackson Era Tippecanoe And Tyler, Too Mexican War Chapter 5 California Gold Quicksilver Slavery Worker Rights Chapter 6 Transportation Cotton Railroads Civil War Real Estate Chapter 7 Abraham Lincoln's Estate Andrew Johnson Impeachment Presidency of Grant Election of 1876 Rutherford Hayes Chapter 8 Pennsylvania Railroad Marine Industry James Garfield Robert Lincoln Pullman Railroad Cars Chapter 9 Chester Arthur Young Theodore Roosevelt Grover Cleveland Tobacco Railroads Again Chapter 10 Sherman Anti-Trust Law Lumber Benjamin Harrison Alaskan Seals Closing the Frontier Chapter 11 Department Stores and Mail Order Houses Telegraph and Telephone Gas Electricity The Cross of Gold Chapter 12 William McKinley Private Clubs China Chapter 13 Theodore Roosevelt Steel Panic of 1907 Northern Securities Santa Fe Railroad Meat Kuhn, Loeb Bank Panama Canal Chapter 14 William Howard Taft Philippines Bull Moose Campaign Woodrow Wilson National City Bank Mexico World War I World War I Finance Chapter 15 Herbert Hoover Election of 1920 Warren G. Harding Newspapers Insurance Chapter 16 "Mellon's Millions" Aluminum Banking Coal Oil Teapot Dome Chapter 17 Calvin Coolidge Dawes' Dollars Stock Market Crash FDR Atomic Energy Chapter 18 Harry Truman Eisenhower Tidelands Oil Dixon-Yates Contract Hanna Mining Chapter 19 General Motors World War I Strikes Again J.P. Stevens Cuba Chapter 20 JFK Motion Pictures Real Estate Textiles Insurance Again Chapter 21 Aviation Automobiles Marine Industry Again Rockefeller Foundation Chapter 22 LBJ Brown & Root Real Estate Broadcasting Chapter 23 Richard Nixon Chile China Again Gerald Ford Chapter 24 Jimmy Carter Coca-Cola Aviation Again Banks Yet Again Lumber Again Coal Again The Carter Administration Summed Up Epilogue: A Shadow on the Wall Notes Works Cited Index
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