| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840–1920. By Steven W. Usselman. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi, 398 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-80636-4. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-521-00106-4.)

This book is an ambitious attempt to connect the culture of technological innovation to the broader American culture through the story of railway management in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In many respects, Steven W. Usselman succeeds. He illustrates clearly the manner in which innovators and managers operated and how that manner changed over time through three distinct developmental periods. He ties that story to change in the broader popular and political cultures, with more success in some time periods than others. Usselman accomplishes all of this through judicious balancing of primary and secondary sources (with emphasis on the Pennsylvania and Burlington railway systems) and a writing style that makes potentially dull subjects come alive.

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