Documents how four middle-class merchants in the mid-nineteenth-century rose to wealth and power by investing in the transcontinental railroad and engaging in r

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"A first-rate look at the little-known story behind the creation of America's first continental railroad…Entertaining and well written." —Publishers Weekly

More than any other single group of individuals, the Boston Associates were responsible for the sweeping economic transformation that occurred in New England be