American colossus h&w brands biography

  • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War: a "first-rate" narrative history (The New York Times) that brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably.
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  • In American Colossus, H.W. Brands portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America.

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    American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

    August 2, 2024
    Capitalism And Democracy

    Many people who have thought about the United States have seen a tension between its commitments to democracy and capitalism. The former is based upon equality. Capitalism is based upon an ethic of freedom which allows individuals to go in their own directions which, in economic life, quickly can lead to inequality. In his new book, "American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism 1865 -- 1900, H.W. Brands examines the uneasy and shifting relationship between democracy and capitalism during America's Gilded Age following the Civil War. Brands is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written prolifically and popularly about a wide range of subjects in American history from Andrew Jackson to both Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt.

    The book is written in a popular, narrative style with little technical discussion or statistics. Yet the book is well-informed, thorough

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    H. W. Brands

    American historian (born 1953)

    Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his PhD in history in 1985. He has authored more than thirty books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.[1][2][3]

    Early life and education

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    Born in 1953, Brands grew up in Oregon in the Portland metropolitan area. He attended Jesuit High School, where he was a three-sport athlete and National Merit Scholar. Brands enrolled at Stanford University, where he studied mathematics and history. After receiving his undergraduate degree in history in 1975,[4] he worked for a year doing sales in his family's cutlery business before returning to Jesuit High School to teach mathematics. He taught at the high school for the next five years. While doing so he earned an MA in

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    Bib ID:
    5013699
    Format:
    Book
    Author:
    Brands, H. W
    Edition:
    1st ed.
    Description:
    • New York, färsk : Doubleday, c2010
    • viii, 614 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
    ISBN:
    Summary:

    From bestselling historian H. W. Brands, a sweeping chronicle of how a few wealthy businessmen reshaped America from a nation of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant.

    Full contents:
    • The rise of the moguls. Speculation as martial art
    • One nation under rails
    • The first triumvirate
    • Toil and trouble
    • Frontiers of enterprise. The conquest of the South
    • Lakota's gods stand
    • Profits on the hoof
    • To make the desert bloom
    • Gotham and Gomorrah. The teeming shore
    • Cities of the plain
    • Below the El
    • The finest government money can buy. School for scandal
    • The spirit of '76
    • Lives of the parties
    • Capital improvements
    • The decade of the century. Meet Jim Crow
    • Affairs of the heartland
    • The wages of capitalism
    • Tariff bill and dollar mark
    • Imperial d