Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Pursuit of Happiness
Part I A Vast And Roaring Wilderness
Chapter One: The Land, the People, and the Law
Chapter Two: In the Name of God and Profit
Chapter Three: The Atlantic Empire
Part II A Country That Could Make Itself As It Pleased
Transition: The American Revolution
Chapter Four: The Hamiltonian Creation
Chapter Five: A Terrible Synergy
Chapter Six: Labor Improbus Omnia Vincit
Chapter Seven: The Jeffersonian Destruction
Chapter Eight: New Jersey Must Be Free!
Chapter Nine: Chaining the Lightning of Heaven
Chapter Ten: Whales, Wood, Ice, and Gold
Part III The Emerging Colossus
Transition: The Civil War
Chapter Eleven: Capitalism Red in Tooth and Claw
Chapter Twelve: Doing Business with Glass Pockets
Chapter Thirteen: Was There Ever Such a Business!
Chapter Fourteen: A Cross of Gold
Part IV The American Century Begins
Transition: The First World War
Chapter Fifteen: Getting Prices Down to the Buying Power
Chapter Sixteen: Fear Itself
Chapter Seventeen: Converting Retreat into Advance
Part V A New Economic Revolution
Transition: The Second World War
Chapter Eighteen: The Great Postwar Boom
Chapter Nineteen: The Crisis of the New Deal Order
Chapter Twenty: A New Economy, a New World, a New War
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