| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman. By Maury Klein. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xviii, 521 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2517-4.)

Edward Henry Harriman was one of America's premier business executives at the turn of the twentieth century. Harriman is best known for his leadership in the railroad industry. Not only did he head the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific lines during the century's first decade but he also was involved in other important carriers. What made Harriman's leadership significant was his clear vision of how to conduct railroading. Contemporaries used the term "Harrimanize," which meant to focus on very substantial capital investments in order to improve service and enlarge capacity to meet the needs of a growing economy. . . .

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