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Control # 1 hbl99078630
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20201014110949.0
Fixed Data 8 190713s2020 nyua bv 001 0 eng d
ISBN 20    $a9781635572490$q(hardcover)
ISBN 20    $a1635572495$q(hardcover)
Local Ctrl # 35    $a(OCoLC)1108311439
Obsolete 39    $a325213$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aYDX$beng$erda$cYDX$dOPW$dRB0$dTP7$dOCLCF$dWIM$dYDXIT$dOCLCQ$dEEM$dUtOrBLW
Geog. Area 43    $an-us---
LC Call 50  4 $aKF1649$b.B47 2020
Dewey Class 82 04 $a343.730721$223
Dewey Class 82 04 $a973.911$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aBerfield, Susan,$eauthor.
Title 245 14 $aThe hour of fate :$bthe story of Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the battle to transform American capitalism /$cSusan Berfield.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew York, NY :$bBloomsbury Publishing,$c2020.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axxi, 393 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 287-309) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aPrologue -- "The storm is on us" -- The best of everything -- A public man -- Railroad nation -- The invisible empire -- Buy at any price -- The state of the union -- Rival operators -- Anthracite -- On strike -- "Catastrophe impending" -- The Corsair agreement -- Rich man's panic -- "The supreme law of the land" -- The ruling -- A president in his own right -- Epilogue.
Abstract 520    $a"It seemed like no force in the world could slow J.P. Morgan's drive to power. In the summer of 1901, the financier was assembling his next mega-deal: Northern Securities, an enterprise that would affirm his dominance in America's most important industry-the railroads. Then, a bullet from an anarchist's gun put an end to the business-friendly presidency of William McKinley. A new chief executive bounded into office: Theodore Roosevelt. He was convinced that as big business got bigger, the government had to check the influence of the wealthiest or the country would inch ever closer to collapse. By March 1902, battle lines were drawn: the government sued Northern Securities for antitrust violations. But as the case ramped up, the coal miners' union went on strike and the anthracite pits that fueled Morgan's trains and heated the homes of Roosevelt's citizens went silent. With millions of dollars on the line, winter bearing down, and revolution in the air, it was a crisis that neither man alone could solve. Richly detailed and propulsively told, The Hour of Fate is the gripping story of a banker and a president thrown together in the crucible of national emergency even as they fought in court. The outcome of the strike and the case would change the course of our history. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan's time are more urgent than ever."--$cBook jacket.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aRoosevelt, Theodore,$d1858-1919.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aMorgan, J. P.$q(John Pierpont),$d1867-1943.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aAntitrust law$zUnited States$vCases.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aStrikes and lockouts$xCoal mining$xHistory.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aCapitalism$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$y1865-1918.