The Union Pacific Railway (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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<div><p>Attempting to tell the whole truth of the matter in a fair way, Davis studies the politics, history, and economics of the Union Pacific Railway in this 1894 volume. He discusses the early unachieved projects, issues which kept the railway from being built, the national push for construction, and the corruptionboth financial and politicalwhich followed.<i> The Yale Review</i>considered Daviss effort easily the best book on the subject.</p></div>

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<div><p><b>John P. Davis</b>(1862-1903) was a lawyer and economist, who received his PhD from the University of Michigan. He is the author of<i>Corporations; a Study of the Origin and Development of Great Business Combinations and Their Relation to the Authority of the State</i>(1905).</p></div>

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