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Rock Island Requiem

Rock Island Requiem
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ISBN-10 : 0700619186
ISBN-13 : 9780700619184
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Download or read book Rock Island Requiem written by Gregory L. Schneider and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the unraveling and demise of the mighty Rock Island Railroad--the largest railroad liquidation in American history. Victim of government regulation, inept management, individual greed, and self-interest, its downfall presents in microcosm the story of the railroad industry's larger problems in postwar America--and in relief, the story of America's economic failures in the 1960s and 1970s.


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