LEADER 03353oam 22006134a 450 001 9910450330003321 005 20220112184517.0 010 $a1-282-07242-0 010 $a9786612072420 010 $a0-253-11060-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000030347 035 $a(EBL)237021 035 $a(OCoLC)475945571 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000183458 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11154307 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183458 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10195616 035 $a(PQKB)10882589 035 $a(OCoLC)559841355 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC237021 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16522 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000030347 100 $a20020320d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInvisible Giants$b[electronic resource] $eThe Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers /$fHerbert H. Harwood, Jr 210 $aBloomington and Indianapolis $cIndiana University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (361 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-34163-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index. 327 $aIntroduction; 1 Oasis in a Gritty City; 2 The Ideal Suburb; 3 Mr. Smith Sells a Farm; 4 Mr. Smith Sells a Railroad; 5 Shaping Solid Forms; 6 A Difficult Birth at the Public Square; 7 The Beginnings of an Empire; 8 To the South, East, and North; 9 Taking Stock: 1924; 10 Some Shadows Fleet By; 11 Building, Rebuilding, and Juggling; 12 Consolidation Anarchy I: The Maverick and the General; 13 Consolidation Anarchy II: The Street Fighter; 14 The Summit I: An Appalachian Peak in the Rockies; 15 The Summit II: Filling Out the Railroad Map 327 $a16 The Summit III: Consummation in Cleveland-and a Jolt17 Completions and Complications; 18 Taking Stock: 1930; 19 Sudden Darkness; 20 The Rails Roll Downgrade; 21 A New World; 22 The Cruelest Year; 23 The Last Train; 24 Epilogue I: New Empires from Old; 25 Epilogue II: The Ghosts; Notes; Sources and Acknowledgments; Index 330 $aInvisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who rose from poverty to become two of the most powerful men in America. They controlled the country's largest railroad system -- a network of track reaching from the Atlantic to Salt Lake City and from Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico. On the eve of the Great Depression they were close to controlling the country's first coast-to-coast rail system -- a goal that still elu 606 $aRailroads$zOhio$xHistory 606 $aReal estate development$zOhio$zCleveland$xHistory 606 $aBusinessmen$zOhio$vBiography 607 $aCleveland (Ohio)$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRailroads$xHistory. 615 0$aReal estate development$xHistory. 615 0$aBusinessmen 676 $a385.0922771 676 $a385/.092/2771 B 700 $aHarwood$b Herbert H.$cJr.$0858167 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450330003321 996 $aInvisible Giants$91915880 997 $aUNINA