| | Amazon.com: Books: Capital City : New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20) |
 | | "Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900" is a brilliant study, and a testimony to Professor Kessner's dedication and research. |
 | | Capital City is a scholarly examination of the development of New York City in the age of unfettered Capitalism when great fortunes were made overnight. |
 | | The book describes the psychogeography of New York City in the last half of the 19th century and the brilliant, eccentric and many times shady: businessmen, politicians, civic reformers, professionals, labor leaders and others who formed the character of the great city while working out the structure and basic methods of corporate capitalism. |
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