The land of enterprise : a business history of the United States

Introduction: How business explains America -- Conquest, colonies, and capitalism -- The business of bondage -- Factories come to America -- The politics of business in the early republic -- Business gets big -- Warring with the octopus : workers, farmers, and trustbusters -- The dawn of modern life -- From Roosevelt to Roosevelt : business and the modern state -- In love with bigness : the postwar corporation -- The personal, the political, and the profitable -- After the industrial economy -- Finance takes flight -- Conclusion: After the crisis