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...America's Interstate system - the largest civil engineering project in human history - is actually substantively complete. And now that it is, we can begin to comprehend its scope and impact. After we've spread enough asphalt and concrete and acquired enough right-of-way to cover the entire surface of the state of Delaware, we can begin to comprehend how this sprawling 75 m.p.h. planet of concrete, asphalt, steel and white-line-paint has changed America - both the way we live and how we view our nation. Like some vast, caffeine-propelled external manifestation of our collective nervous system, these...
...ship drew closer and they could see that she was flying a U.S. flag, speculation turned to her identity. Some thought the ship might belong to the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, yet another expression of America's ongoing commercial expansion which continued even as the country was rent by civil war. That year the Expedition was conducting surveys for a cable to be stretched across the Bering Strait; the project sought to create a communications link-by way of Canada, Alaska and Asia-between the United States and Europe...
...November 1886, Roosevelt, just 28, loses the race for mayor of New York City. A month later, he marries his childhood friend Edith Carow. They will have five children: Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archie and Quentin. Once settled, he becomes increasingly involved in national politics, serving as a U.S. Civil Service commissioner in Washington and president of New York City's board of police commissioners before President William McKinley appoints him Assistant Secretary of the Navy on April...
Like Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, Morgan believed in free enterprise but had seen enough of unbridled competition. For much of his career, he had assembled financing for the railways whose stupendous growth had revolutionized the U.S. after the Civil War. Boom and bust, duplicated routes, desperate price cutting and collapsed enterprises--the bumpy realities of the railroad business left Morgan with a horror of economic disorder. Profits required stability. Stability required concentration. Concentration meant trusts...
...century he brought America into on his terms. Roosevelt's years in the White House were one of those hinges upon which the whole of American history sometimes turns. When he arrived there, he already understood the energies that had been building in the U.S. for decades after the Civil War: the explosion of its industrial power, the ineluctable impulse to expand. He used his presidency to discharge those energies in ways that left the U.S. profoundly changed. Again and again, he framed the questions we still ask. How much influence should the government have over the economy? How much...