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Empire Builders: How Michigan Entrepreneurs Helped Make America
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Burton Folsom
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Folsom focuses on a number of great business leaders who, through their failures and success, made their state and nation into a great economic power by the end of the 19th century. Brilliant entrepreneurs such as John Jacob Astor, Herbert Dow, and Will Kellogg. Possibly the most fascinating chapter in this work is on Michigan's attempt in the 1830's to 1840's to create a network of state owned railroads and canals. It is a welcome dissenting view for an age in which many credulous Americans are still in love with statism and turn away from a heritage of liberty.
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