Contents

Cover

Title Page

 

    Chapter 1: A Land of Promise

THE PREINDUSTRIAL ECONOMY

    Chapter 2: Nation Building

    Chapter 3: The First American Economy

THE AGE OF STEAM

    Chapter 4: “There Is Nothing That Cannot Be Produced by Machinery”: The First Industrial Revolution

    Chapter 5: American Systems

    Chapter 6: Plain Mechanic Power: The Civil War and the Second Republic

    Chapter 7: The Iron Horse and the Lightning

THE MOTOR AGE

    Chapter 8: Franklin’s Baby: Electricity, Automobiles, and the Second Industrial Revolution

    Chapter 9: The Day of Combination

    Chapter 10: The New Era

    Chapter 11: A New Deal for America

    Chapter 12: Arsenal of Democracy

    Chapter 13: The Glorious Thirty Years

    Chapter 14: The Great Dismantling

THE INFORMATION AGE

    Chapter 15: As We May Think: The Third Industrial Revolution

    Chapter 16: The Bubble Economy

    Chapter 17: The Next American Economy

 

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

 

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