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"Out of nothing but the government's behest, a few bold men conjured a giant ship-building industry in 1940 and launched the ships that took America to war and to victory"-- Provided by publisher.

In the late 19th century, as America's teeming cities grew increasingly congested, the time had come to replace the nostalgic horse-drawn trolleys with a faster, cleaner, safer, and more efficient form of transportation. Ultimately, it was Boston, a city of so many firsts that ov...

In the late nineteenth century, as cities grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding horse-drawn carts. When the great Blizzard of 1888 crippled the Northeast, a solution had to be found. Two brothers from a prominent family--Henry Melville Whitney of Boston an...

Sometimes 'manure happens,' and unfortunately for business partners and best pals Steve and Harry, they're in it up to their eyeballs. With their chemical light-stick company and both of their marriages on the brink of collapse, their hoped-for success story is about to go Chapte...