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
About the Author
Also by Michael Lind
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher