UID:
almafu_9959328711602883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 587 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781118192481
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1118192486
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9780470917367
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0470917369
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9781118192498
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1118192494
Series Statement:
[Political capitalism ; bk. 2]
Content:
The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the electricity industry in the U.S. are scarce. Edison to Enron is a readable flowing history of two of America's largest and most colorful industries. It begins with the story of Samuel Insull, a poor boy from England, who started his career as Thomas Edison's right-hand man, then went on his own and became one of America's top industrialists. But when Insull's General Electric's energy empire collapsed during the Great Depression, the hitherto Great Man was denounced and prosecuted and died a pauper. Against that backdrop, the book introduces Ken Lay, a poor boy from Missouri who began his career as an aide to the head of Humble oil, now part of Exxon Mobil. Lay went on to become a Washington bureaucrat and energy regulator and then became the wunderkind of the natural gas industry in the 1980s with Enron. To connect the lives of these two energy giants, Edison to Enron takes the reader through the flamboyant history of the American energy industry, from Texas wildcatters to the great pipeline builders to the Washington wheeler-dealers. From the Reviews ... "This scholarly work fills in much missing history about two of America's most important industries, electricity and natural gas."--Joseph A. Pratt, NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business, University of Houston " ... a remarkable book on the political inner workings of the U.S. energy industry."--Robert Peltier, PE, Editor-in-Chief, POWER Magazine "This is a powerful story, brilliantly told."--Forrest McDonald, Historian.
Note:
Front Matter -- Introduction: Energy History in Rhyme -- The Chief: Samuel Insull -- The Chief: Samuel Insull. Building General Electric -- Dynamo at Chicago Edison: 1892₆1907 -- Expanding Horizons: 1907₆1918 -- Peak and Peril: 1919₆1929 -- Plummet and Ruin: 1930₆1938 -- The Boss: Jack Bowen -- The Boss: Jack Bowen. Meadows to Murchison -- A Monumental Mistake -- Florida Gas Company -- Transco Energy Company -- Houston Natural Gas Corporation -- Houston Natural Gas Corporation. The Prince of Bankruptcy: John Henry Kirby -- Robert Herring and Ray Fish -- Formation and Maturation -- Robert Herring and After -- Epilogue: Market Order, Political Challenges -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Also of Interest.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Bradley, Robert L., 1955- Edison to Enron. Hoboken, NJ : Scrivener : Wiley, ©2011 ISBN 9780470917367
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118192481
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118192481
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118192481
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