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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

GILDED AGE ENTREPRENEURTHE CURIOUS LIFE OF AMERICAN FINANCIER ALBERT BENTON PULLMAN

SIMON CORDERY

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Ithaca and London

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