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J. P. Morgan and the Transportation Kings
The Titanic and Other Disasters
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2012
Summary
The concept was simple, to link American railroads and global dominance of the seas with a railroad line through China and Russia, enter the back door of Europe, and create new royalty: the Transportation Kings. Vanderbilt, Hill, Morgan, and Harriman all pursued the grand dream. They were America’s industrial princes, poised for their greatest accomplishments, only to find that they had not considered the gauntlet awaiting them in the courts of kings and Kaisers, parliaments and congress. They awoke John Bull and helped precipitate revolution in China. They brought about the building of Lusitania and, in reaction, they owned and built the Titanic. We all know how the disaster story ends; this is how the story came about.
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2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-5849-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-5851-5
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
370
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Prologue No access Pages 1 - 6
1. Early Shipping No access Pages 7 - 18
2. American Shipping Consortium No access Pages 19 - 38
3. The Corner No access Pages 39 - 41
4. Economic Expansion No access Pages 42 - 45
5. Community of Interest No access Pages 46 - 51
6. Vanderbilt No access Pages 52 - 58
7. Marc Hanna No access Pages 59 - 67
8. The Creation of Political Leadership No access Pages 68 - 79
9. Roosevelt No access Pages 80 - 84
10. The Business of the Presidency No access Pages 85 - 90
11. The Maritime Subsidy Bill No access Pages 91 - 96
12. Roosevelt Rises No access Pages 97 - 101
13. A Rift Between Friends No access Pages 102 - 107
14. The Subsidy Bill Under Debate In Congress No access Pages 108 - 117
15. Opposition in Congress No access Pages 118 - 126
16. The Loyal Opposition No access Pages 127 - 135
17. Pan-American Exposition No access Pages 136 - 142
18. A New President No access Pages 143 - 150
19. An Uninvited Agenda No access Pages 151 - 161
20. The Anti-McKinley No access Pages 162 - 167
21. Hanna’s Last Hurrah No access Pages 168 - 177
22. Financial Contributions to an Incumbent No access Pages 178 - 181
23. Harriman and the Far East No access Pages 182 - 190
24. Competition in the Far East No access Pages 191 - 198
25. Global Interference No access Pages 199 - 205
26. The Panic of 1907 No access Pages 206 - 212
27. Roosevelt is Denied the 1908 Race No access Pages 213 - 221
28. Hill and the Far East No access Pages 222 - 228
29. Historic Rivalry No access Pages 229 - 236
30. Free Ships No access Pages 237 - 246
31. Breathing Life into the IMM No access Pages 247 - 252
32. The American Invaders! No access Pages 253 - 264
33. Cunard No access Pages 265 - 276
34. IMM No access Pages 277 - 280
35. Lusitania, Aquitania, Mauretania and Titanic No access Pages 281 - 290
36. Investigation and Aftermath No access Pages 291 - 297
