Download or read book Jay Cooke s Gamble written by M. John Lubetkin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke’s gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and triggered the Panic of 1873. Staking his reputation and wealth on the Northern Pacific, Cooke was soon whipsawed by the railroad’s mismanagement, questionable contracts, and construction problems. Financier J. P. Morgan undermined him, and the Crédit Mobilier scandal ended congressional support. When railroad surveyors and army escorts ignored Sioux chief Sitting Bull’s warning not to enter the Yellowstone Valley, Indian attacks—combined with alcoholic commanders—led to embarrassing setbacks on the field, in the nation’s press, and among investors. Lubetkin’s suspenseful narrative describes events played out from Wall Street to the Yellowstone and vividly portrays the soldiers, engineers, businessmen, politicians, and Native Americans who tried to build or block the Northern Pacific.
Download or read book In the Matter of Jay Cooke and Others Trading as Jay Cooke Co Bankrupts Catalogue of Stock Bonds Western Lands Town Lots and Other Real Estate Belonging to the Estate of Jay Cooke Co in Bankruptcy Sale Held by M Thomas Sons Philadelphia March 1880 written by Edwin M. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jay Cooke s Memoir written by Jay Cooke and published by . This book was released on 189? with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typescript (carbon copy) of Cooke's own memoir of childhood, family, and his business experience until about 1861. The rest of the work, written from dictation by Cooke's granddaughter, Elizabeth C. Butler, deals mainly with Civil War finance and the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Download or read book Jay Cooke Private Banker written by Henrietta Melia Larson and published by Harvard Studies in Business History. This book was released on 1936 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Jay Cooke, Private Banker".
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Download or read book Jay Cooke Financier of the Civil War written by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Jay Cooke written by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph.D. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-16 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Jay Cooke, an American financier who helped finance the Union war effort during the American Civil War and the postwar development of railroads in the northwestern United States. Volume 2
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Download or read book Patriot Fires written by Melinda Lawson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War is often credited with giving birth to the modern American state. The demands of warfare led to the centralization of business and industry and to an unprecedented expansion of federal power. But the Civil War did more than that: as Melinda Lawson shows, it brought about a change in American national identity, redefining the relationship between the individual and the government. Though much has been written about the Civil War and the making of the political and economic American nation, this is the first comprehensive study of the role that the war played in the shaping of the cultural and ideological nation-state. In Patriot Fires, Lawson explains how, when threatened by the rebellious South, the North came together as a nation and mobilized its populace for war. With no formal government office to rally citizens, the job of defining the war in patriotic terms fell largely to private individuals or associations, each with their own motives and methods. Lawson explores how these "interpreters" of the war helped instill in Americans a new understanding of loyalty to country. Through efforts such as sanitary fairs to promote the welfare of soldiers, the war bond drives of Jay Cooke, and the establishment of Union Leagues, Northerners cultivated a new sense of patriotism rooted not just in the subjective American idea, but in existing religious, political, and cultural values. Moreover, Democrats and Republicans, Abolitionists, and Abraham Lincoln created their own understandings of American patriotism and national identity, raising debates over the meaning of the American "idea" to new heights. Examining speeches, pamphlets, pageants, sermons, and assemblies, Lawson shows how citizens and organizations constructed a new kind of nationalism based on a nation of Americans rather than a union of states—a European-styled nationalism grounded in history and tradition and celebrating the preeminence of the nation-state. Original in its insights and innovative in its approach, Patriot Fires is an impressive work of cultural and intellectual history. As America engages in new conflicts around the globe, Lawson shows us that issues addressed by nation builders of the nineteenth century are relevant once again as the meaning of patriotism continues to be explored.
Download or read book Jay Cooke written by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph.D. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-16 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Jay Cooke, an American financier who helped finance the Union war effort during the American Civil War and the postwar development of railroads in the northwestern United States. Volume 1
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Download or read book Jay Cooke written by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book Civil War Senator written by Robert J. Cook and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most talented and influential American politicians of the nineteenth century, William Pitt Fessenden (1806--1869) helped devise Union grand strategy during the Civil War. A native of Maine and son of a fiery New England abolitionist, he served in the United States Senate as a member of the Whig Party during the Kansas-Nebraska crisis and played a formative role in the development of the Republican Party. In this richly textured and fast-paced biography, Robert J. Cook charts Fessenden's rise to power and probes the potent mix of political ambition and republican ideology which impelled him to seek a place in the U.S. Senate at a time of rising tension between North and South. A determined and self-disciplined man who fought, not always successfully, to keep his passions in check, Fessenden helped to spearhead Republican Party opposition to proslavery expansion during the strife-torn 1850s and led others to resist the cotton states' efforts to secede peaceably after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. During the Civil War, he chaired the Senate Finance Committee and served as President Lincoln's second head of the Treasury Department. In both positions, he fashioned and implemented wartime financial policy for the United States. In addition, Fessenden's multifaceted relationship with Lincoln helped to foster effective working relations between the president and congressional Republicans. Cook outlines Fessenden's many contributions to critical aspects of northern grand strategy and to the gradual shift to an effective total war policy against the Confederacy. Most notably, Cook shows, Fessenden helped craft congressional policy regarding the confiscation and emancipation of slaves. Cook also details Fessenden's tenure as chairman of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction after the war, during which he authored that committee's report. Although he sanctioned his party's break with Andrew Johnson less than a year after the war's end, Cook explains how Fessenden worked decisively to thwart attempts by Radical Republicans to revolutionize post-emancipation society in the defeated Confederacy. The first biography of Fessenden in over forty years, Civil War Senator reveals a significant but often sidelined historical figure and explains the central role played by party politics and partisanship in the coming of the Civil War, northern military victory, and the ultimate failure of postwar Reconstruction. Cook restores Fessenden to his place as one of the most important politicians of a troubled generation.
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Download or read book Jay Cooke written by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1907 Edition.
