Union Pacific
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (735 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385177283 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 685 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Union Pacific book has been released since 2016-10-18. Union Pacific are written by Maury Klein and it has 685 of pages on paperback.
Harry Frumerman, formerly with Economics Dept., Hunter Coll., CUNYCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal This purports to be the definitive history of the first three decades of a major western railroad, Union Pacific, which in its time was also one of the nation's biggest business enterprises. His central thesis is that lack of strong leadership and internal bickering weakened the railroad's financial, organizational, and political capabilities to operate profitably, ultimately forcing Union Pacific into receivership in 1893. Railroad buffs will, no doubt, savor every morsel, but general readers will probably be surfeited long before the end of this very rich feast of
roger l. said bored to tears. informative,alot of information, but hard to read. loaded with financial info, but short on the construction side. useful to a economics major studying the financing of the western railroads.. How to build, operate, and finance a railroad. Donald Costello In his two volume work on the UP, Klein devotes the first volume to the building of the railroad and the second volume to the operations and expansion - basically the next hundred years. There are a number of good books out there about the building of the UP. Klein i. Marc Mandel said Klein's Union Pacific Volume 1. I found Klein's fantastic first volume on the history of the Union Pacific in the library of a neighboring town. Klein's history covers both the difficulties encountered in building the railroad and the financial/political scheming that went on back east in New York