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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821659803321

Autore

Bradley Robert L. <1955->

Titolo

Edison to Enron [[electronic resource] ] : energy markets and political strategies / / Robert L. Bradley, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salem, Mass., : Scrivener Pub.

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2011

ISBN

1-283-33281-7

9786613332813

1-118-19248-6

1-118-19251-6

1-118-19249-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (604 p.)

Collana

[Political capitalism ; ; bk. 2]

Disciplina

338.2/72850973

Soggetti

Gas industry - United States - History

Power resources - United States - History

Corporations - Moral and ethical aspects

Corporations - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Series statement from dust jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The chief : Samuel Insull -- Building General Electric -- Dynamo at Chicago Edison: 1892-1907 -- Expanding horizons: 1907-1918 -- Peak and peril: 1919-1929 -- Plummet and ruin: 1930-38 -- The boss: Jack Bowen -- Meadows to Murchison -- A monumental mistake -- Florida Gas Company -- Transco Energy Company -- Houston Natural Gas Corporation -- The prince of bankruptcy : John Henry Kirby -- Robert Herring and Ray Fish -- Formation and maturation -- Robert Herring and after -- Epilogue market order, political challenges.

Sommario/riassunto

The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the electricity industry in the U.S. are scarce. Edison to Enron is a readable flowing history of two of America's largest and most colorful industries. It begins with the story of Samuel Insull, a poor boy from England, who started his career as Thomas Edison's right-hand



man, then went on his own and became one of America's top industrialists. But when Insull's General Electric's energy empire collapsed during the Great Depression, the hit