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Preface Prologue: 1917 1: The First Big Business 2: The Runaway Iron Horse 3: The Good Roads Crusade 4: The Electric Shooting Star 5: Motoring for Profit: The Birth of Trucking 6: The Trojan Horseless Carriage 7: Derailing the Trolleys 8: Applying the Brakes 9: Hard Times 10: A War Abroad, a Conflict at Home 11: Interstate Socialism 12: A New America 13: Trouble in Paradise 14: The Unshackling 15: Same Game, New Rules 16: Taking Stock 17: Technology to the Rescue? 18: Sinking or Swimming in a Global EconomyNotes Bibliography Interviews Legal Cases Acknowledgments Index

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• Full title: Getting There: The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century
• Author: Stephen B. Goddard
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366
• EAN: 9780226300436
• ISBN: 0226300439
• ID: 11360794
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Weight: 522 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 154 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: November 1996

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