THE GILDED LEDGER
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THE GILDED LEDGER Book 1
4 parts · 15 h 24 min
Cleveland, Titusville and Washington, 1862 to 1911.
THE GILDED LEDGER Book 2
4 parts · 14 h 58 min
New York, 1794 to 1879. A Staten Island boatman with no schooling and no capital spends fifty years learning that the cheapest way to own a route is to make owning it unbearable for everyone else.
THE GILDED LEDGER Book 3
4 parts · 14 h 16 min
Pittsburgh and the Monongahela valley, 1848 to 1901. A Scottish weaver's son goes into a cotton mill in Allegheny City at twelve, at a dollar twenty a week. Fifty-three years later he sells a steel company for four hundred and eighty million dollars.
THE GILDED LEDGER Book 4
4 parts · 14 h 49 min
New York, 1834 to 1916. Two people learn the same thing about the American securities market and act on it in opposite directions.
THE GILDED LEDGER Book 5
4 parts · 15 h 55 min
St. Paul and Baku, 1856 to 1920. Every American transcontinental before it was built on a federal land grant and every one of them went broke. James J.
THE GILDED LEDGER Book 6
4 parts · 17 h 29 min
New York and Washington, 1837 to 1913. A banker who held no public office reorganized the American railroad system, assembled the first billion-dollar corporation, and twice found the money that kept the United States Treasury solvent.