Reading Time
9 hrs 17 mins
How long to read Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America?
The estimated word count of Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America is 139,035 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 9 hrs 17 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 15 hrs 27 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 5 hrs 9 mins.
| Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America - 139,035 words | ||
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| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 15 hrs 27 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 9 hrs 17 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 5 hrs 9 mins |
- Authors
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Michael Hiltzik
More about Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
139,035 words
Word Count
for Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
14 hours and 57 minutes
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Description
In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America’s railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. The vicious competition between empire builders such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, and E. H. Harriman sparked stock market frenzies, panics, and crashes; provoked strikes that upended the relationship between management and labor; transformed the nation’s geography; and culminated in a ferocious two-man battle that shook the nation’s financial markets to their foundations and produced dramatic, lasting changes in the interplay of business and government. Spanning four decades and featuring some of the most iconic figures of the Gilded Age, Iron Empires reveals how the robber barons drove the country into the twentieth century—and almost sent it off the rails.