The Merchant of Power: Samuel Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis.(Book review)

The Historian | September 22, 2007| | Copyright

The Merchant of Power: Samuel Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis. By John F. Wasik. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. x, 270. $24.95.)

The final decades of the nineteenth century were probably the apogee of the peculiarly American cult of individualism. These were the decades during which a string of forceful and domineering self-made men were at or near the height of their powers. They dominated late nineteenth-century America's industrial and technological worlds and strove to remake its culture in their own image. By their own ...

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