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Gilded Age Entrepreneur: The Curious Life of American Financier Albert Benton Pullman: Copyright Page

Gilded Age Entrepreneur: The Curious Life of American Financier Albert Benton Pullman
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table of contents
  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Introduction: The Pullman Era
  9. Part I: Creating the Pullman Brand
    1. 1. A Family in Motion
    2. 2. Growing Up in the Great Lakes Region
    3. 3. Early Ventures
    4. 4. Conductors and Porters
    5. 5. Pioneer and Pullman Mythmaking
    6. 6. Drummer in a Palace Car
    7. 7. Into the Great Western Desert
    8. 8. Incorporation and Monopoly
    9. 9. From Sea to Shining Sea
  10. Part II: Branching Out
    1. 10. Network Building
    2. 11. Pleasure in New York, Business in Detroit
    3. 12. A Fire Insurance Investment Goes Up in Flames
    4. 13. Short Engagements in Banking and Land Sales
    5. 14. International Luminary
    6. 15. Domestic Joy, Corporate Despair
    7. 16. Complications
    8. 17. English Anxieties
    9. 18. Brand Albert
    10. 19. Railroad Expert
    11. 20. The End of Mutual Relations
    12. 21. Money, Politics, and Challenging George
  11. Part III:Consolidation and Upheaval
    1. 22. Utopian Domesticity
    2. 23. Utopia in Brick and Steel
    3. 24. The Costs of Utopia
    4. 25. Deaths and Departure
    5. 26. Fractured Relationships
    6. 27. A Hansom Cab Smashup
    7. 28. Investing in Tomorrow
    8. 29. Albert at the Exposition
  12. Conclusion: The End of an Era
  13. Notes
  14. Index
  15. Copyright Page

Frontispiece. Albert Benton Pullman. Reproduced by permission of the Chicago History Museum, ICHi-1873765, C. D. Mosher, photographer.

Copyright © 2025 by Simon Cordery

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2025 by Cornell University Press

Librarians: A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 9781501783180 (hardcover)

ISBN 9781501783197 (pdf)

ISBN 9781501783203 (epub)

GPSR EU contact: Sam Thornton, Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Mauritskade 21D, 1091 GC, Amsterdam, NL, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk.

Jacket photographs: Portrait of Albert Pullman, by C. D. Mosher. Courtesy Chicago History Museum, Grover Cleveland Presidential Pullman Car. Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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