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Occupy Railroads: Dennis Drabelle’s ‘The Great American Railroad War’

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The Great American Railroad War claims that Gilded Age journalists took on railroad tycoons—the equivalent of today’s Wall Street fat-cat bankers—and won. But Eric Herschthal says the press was no hero.

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