被铁路裹挟
Railroaded
White, Richard · 初版 2011 年
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本书是一部横贯大陆铁路的修筑史，记录了南北战争后数十年间铁路如何深刻重塑美国。十九世纪后期的横贯大陆铁路是最初的企业巨无霸。它们试图依靠不断膨胀的债务谋取暴利，结果在 U.S. 经济中引发了灾难性的恐慌。它们对公共资金支持的依赖将自身卷入权力中枢，催生了新型腐败。它们的运营重组了时空，重塑了西部地貌。车轮与铁轨、车厢与煤炭，为人们开辟了全新的工作领域与生活方式……
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…Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos -Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World by Erik Larson -Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard -White -The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War by William Manchester -Edison by Edmund…
……（很大程度上由伦敦投资者注资支持），而铁路建设可以说是19世纪最疯狂、最狂热、充满暗箱腐败的发展项目了。一本很有意思（但很长）的书：Richard White 写的《Railroaded》。
…(backed in no small part by London investors), and the building of the railroads was perhaps the most crazy, frenzied, back-room corrupt development of the 19th century. An interesting (but long) read: “Railroaded”, by Richard White.
《Railroaded: The Transcontinentals And The Making Of Modern America》- Richard White。相比同类历史书，它更多聚焦在幕后权钱交易上。其核心论点是横贯大陆铁路导致了……
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals And The Making Of Modern America - Richard White. Focuses a bit more on the wheelings and dealings than some histories of the same thing. Has thesis the transcontinentals caused…
……在一个把最新技术——铁路——推销给下一代散户投资者的骗局中抛售债券。“这就像如今卖给加密货币投资者一样，”《Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America》的作者、历史学家 Richard White 说道，“这些投资者基本上就是靠着他们曾经信任的名人的承诺过日子。”
…offload bonds in a scheme selling the latest technology—railroads—to the next generation of individual investors. “It was like selling to crypto investors today,” says historian Richard White, author of Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. “These investors were basically living off of the promises of famous people they had trusted before.”