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A superb new history. . . . A big, brash narrative. <i>Bloomberg News</i> A first-rate overview of one of the most important periods in American history. . . . Brands is a terrific writer who commands his material, handles this sprawling, complicated story with authority and panache. <i>The New York Times</i> Colorful. . . . Sweeping. . . . Brands masterfully chronicles this transformation. . . . His account serves admirably as a survey history of Gilded Age America. <i>The Plain Dealer</i> An excellent book. . . . Brands is a smart, lively writer. . . . He demonstrates, as the best historians do, that past is prologue. <i>The Dallas Morning News</i></p>

Praise for American Colossus <br> Mr. Brands, a terrific writer who commands his material, handles this sprawling, complicated story with authority and panache. A book that might have been a worthy but boring tome turns out to be as close as serious history gets to a page turner.... American Colossus is a first-rate overview of one of the most important periods in American history, one without which the American Century could not have happened. <br>--John Steele Gordon, The New York Times <p> A superb new history....This is a big, brash narrative running from the Confederate surrender at Appomattox to the trust busting of Theodore Roosevelt....I read swaths of this book twice, just to savor Brands' storytelling and mastery of detail. <br>--James Pressley, Bloomberg News <br> Mr. Brands paints a vivid portrait of both this understudied age and those industrialists still introduced by high school teachers as 'robber barons' Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefel

A superb new history. . . . A big, brash narrative. Bloomberg News A first-rate overview of one of the most important periods in American history. . . . Brands is a terrific writer who commands his material, handles this sprawling, complicated story with authority and panache. The New York Times Colorful. . . . Sweeping. . . . Brands masterfully chronicles this transformation. . . . His account serves admirably as a survey history of Gilded Age America. The Plain Dealer An excellent book. . . . Brands is a smart, lively writer. . . . He demonstrates, as the best historians do, that past is prologue. The Dallas Morning News

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H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class.

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