The Men Who Loved Trains

The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to Save an Ailing Industry
Herausgeber: Loving, Rush

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book will delight not only the rail fan, but anyone interested in American business and history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780253220318
• ISBN-10: 0253220319
• Artikelnr.: 23580810

Autorenporträt

edited by Rush Loving, Jr.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The Forrest Gump of Railroading
2. Meeting the Blue-Eyed Jew from Minnesota
3. A Cabal at the Greenbrier
4. The Portly Virginia Gentleman
5. An Eleventh Hour Surprise
6. "Where the Hell Is Harrisburg?"
7. Cooking the Books
8. "That Telephone Man"
9. The Granddaddy of Enron
10. Some High Society Sex
11. "They Are Going to Run Out of Cash"
12. The Scandals Unfold
13. Booted Off the Property
14. A School Band on the Railroad Tracks
15. The Unsinkable Chief Wawatam
16. Donning the Mantle of Moses
17. Merging Railroads over Bourbon
18. Selling the Shiny Silver Sphere
19. "God Save Me from the Planners and Thinkers!"
20. Son of Penn Central
21. "Why the Hell Do We Need Four Tracks Out Here?"
22. Girding for Battle
23. "We Will Fight with Every Means at Our Disposal"
24. John Snow, CEO
25. A Catalog of Blunders
26. "I Think We Want to Be Seen as Somewhat Crazy"
27. In the Betrayal Suite
28. The Day the Horse Fell Down
Index