Search Results: Titles starting with C from shgordon

This period novel about corruption is based on a play of the same name. It is a parody of corruption politics in the Reconstruction Era and is uncannily similar to today's headlines: Example: "A ring of lobbyists was the nearest approach to a gubernatorial board of governors. The Governor, with his shrewdness, could not close his eyes to the greed and lawlessness of these fellows....He was not there to detect thievery but to make it profitable to himself."

A descriptive inventory of the historical exhibits on display at the Centenary Exhibition of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroads. Detailed descriptions of engines, cars, brakes, equipment used by employees, rule books, tickets, telegraphs, older ways of transport etc. etc. Example: "The William Galloway hauls two reproduced four-wheel, open, drop side, gondola cars used for hauling barrels of flour and boxed freight, protected by canvas. This was the first type of freight care on the Baltimore and Ohio,"

Boys' American Civil War adventure story based on the true story of The General, a stolen locomotive. Takes place in Tennessee, Georgia, etc. 263 pp.

A very tightly written and informative book on "administrative law" pertaining to the Chicago Board of Trade. The background to the text begins with a huge investment by the state of Illinois to fund internal improvements" in railroad, ports and turnpikes. The investment and the project failed in the financial Panic of 1837. One Illustration in front pages, Pp.preface ix-xiv; Abbreviations xv; text 3-212; appendix 213; bibliography 214-232; index 233-234.

A series of learned and informative essays on the history of U.S. policy toward Russian from the time of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 to the Viet Nam era. In sum, the U.S. was negatively disposed toward the emerging Soviet Union, and largely based its choices on the limitations of trade the the USSR placed on the international community. Also at work in U.S. government calculations was the Bolshevik failure to allow for the self determination of nations through voting and human rights protections. The general bias of these essays is toward the American left, but not necessarily for the left wing Communist alternative.. Some penned underlinings in text and name of owner inside front cover. Of particular interest are my notes taken while listening to a Radio Havanna broadcast in March, 1971, when there was a worry about censorship of the American news regarding Viet Nam.

An analysis of conflict and collaboration working together in the development of industrial society, primarily in 19th century Europe. It includes reference to Marx, Saint-Simon, Nietzsche,,Comte, Habermas, Popper, Galbraith, just to name a few of the economic and social philosophers and many others. Includes reference to the United States and ends with the statement that "life itself is beginning to express the freedom hitherto reserved for art." Includes a bibliography. A few pencil underlinings in chapter one, and my name written inside front cover.