Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Agents of Transformation -- Part I: The Age of Scoundrels -- 1: Uncle Daniel and the Commodore -- 2: Chapters of Erie -- 3: Pierpont Morgan's Grand Tour -- 4: The King of Frauds -- 5: The Northern Pacific Panic -- 6: Jay Gould Returns -- 7: Year of Upheaval -- Part II: Morgan and Harriman -- 8: The Rise of Ned Harriman -- 9: The First Skirmish -- 10: A Community of Interests -- 11: Savior of the Union Pacific -- 12: The Reconstruction -- 13: "A Pig-Headed Affair -- 14: The Empire Builder -- 15: The Quest for the Burlington -- Part III: The Ghost Dance -- 16: Peacock Alley -- 17: Lions Guarding the Way -- 18: "A Good-Sized Panic" -- 19: Exhauston -- 20: The Trustbuster -- 21: "Malefactors of Great Wealth" -- Back Matter -- Epilogue: The End of an Epoch -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Illustration Credits -- Index -- Back Flap -- Back Cover -- Spine

"From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans"--