J.P. Morgan and the transportation kings : the Titanic and other disasters / Steven H. Gittelman.

ISBN:

9780761858515

Title:

Author:

Gittelman, Steven H., 1949-

Personal Author:

Gittelman, Steven H., 1949-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 369 pages :) : illustrations, portraits

Contents:

J.P. MORGAN AND THE TRANSPORTATION KINGS; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Early Shipping; 2. American Shipping Consortium; 3. The Corner; 4. Economic Expansion; 5. Community of Interest; 6. Vanderbilt; 7. Marc Hanna; 8. The Creation of Political Leadership; 9. Roosevelt; 10. The Business of the Presidency; 11. The Maritime Subsidy Bill; 12. Roosevelt Rises; 13. A Rift Between Friends; 14. The Subsidy Bill Under Debate In Congress; 15. Opposition in Congress; 16. The Loyal Opposition; 17. Pan-American Exposition; 18. A New President; 19. An Uninvited Agenda; 20. The Anti-McKinley.

21. Hanna's Last Hurrah22. Financial Contributions to an Incumbent; 23. Harriman and the Far East; 24. Competition in the Far East; 25. Global Interference; 26. The Panic of 1907; 27. Roosevelt is Denied the 1908 Race; 28. Hill and the Far East; 29. Historic Rivalry; 30. Free Ships; 31. Breathing Life into the IMM; 32. The American Invaders!; 33. Cunard; 34. IMM; 35. Lusitania, Aquitania, Mauretania and Titanic; 36. Investigation and Aftermath; 37. Legacy; 38. The End of a Dream; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.

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Personal Subject:

Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913.

Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913. (OCoLC)fst00154731

Corporate Subject:

Titanic (Steamship)

Titanic (Steamship) (OCoLC)fst00522117

Subject Term:

Transportation.

Disasters.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Banks & Banking.

Disasters. (OCoLC)fst00894782

Transportation. (OCoLC)fst01155007

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=465487

Publication Date:

2012

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Summary

The concept was simple, to link American railroads and global dominance of the seas with a railroad line through China and Russia, enter the back door of Europe, and create new royalty: the Transportation Kings. Vanderbilt, Hill, Morgan, and Harriman all pursued the grand dream. They were America's industrial princes, poised for their greatest accomplishments, only to find that they had not considered the gauntlet awaiting them in the courts of kings and Kaisers, parliaments and congress. They awoke John Bull and helped precipitate revolution in China. They brought about the building of Lusitania and, in reaction, they owned and built the Titanic. We all know how the disaster story ends; this is how the story came about.

Author Notes

Steven H. Gittelman has served as president of the Board of Trustees at The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum for fifteen years. In his previous book, Gittelman followed his subject around the world to fashion his biography of Willie K. Vanderbilt. During that search, an obscure article in the New York Times provided him with a thread that unraveled this fascinating tale of the men who aspired global transportation dominance and how each one chased his own version of the dream, only to taste bitter failure