The concept was simple, to link American railroads and global dominance of the seas with a railroad line through China and Russia, enter the back door of Europe, and create new royalty: the Transportation Kings. Vanderbilt, Hill, Morgan, and Harriman all pursued the grand dream. They were America's industrial princes, poised for their greatest accomplishments, only to find that they had not considered the gauntlet awaiting them in the courts of kings and Kaisers, parliaments and congress. They awoke John Bull and helped precipitate revolution in China. They brought about the building of Lusitania and, in reaction, they owned and built the Titanic. We all know how the disaster story ends; this is how the story came about.
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By Steven H. Gittelman
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Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Early Shipping
2. American Shipping Consortium
3. The Corner
4. Economic Expansion
5. Community of Interest
6. Vanderbilt
7. Marc Hanna
8. The Creation of Political Leadership
9. Roosevelt
10. The Business of the Presidency
11. The Maritime Subsidy Bill
12. Roosevelt Rises
13. A Rift Between Friends
14. The Subsidy Bill Under Debate In Congress
15. Opposition in Congress
16. The Loyal Opposition
17. Pan-American Exposition
18. A New President
19. An Uninvited Agenda
20. The Anti-McKinley
21. Hanna's Last Hurrah
22. Financial Contributions to an Incumbent
23. Harriman and the Far East
24. Competition in the Far East
25. Global Interference
26. The Panic of 1907
27. Roosevelt is Denied the 1908 Race
28. Hill and the Far East
29. Historic Rivalry
30. Free Ships
31. Breathing Life into the IMM
32. The American Invaders!
33. Cunard
34. IMM
35. Lusitania, Aquitania, Mauretania and Titanic
36. Investigation and Aftermath
37. Legacy
38. The End of a Dream
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author