Workhorses of the Big Four

Workhorses of the Big Four

Author: John Evans

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2016-08-15

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1445655039

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John Evans explores the key locomotives involved in the last days of steam.


A Good Day's Work

A Good Day's Work

Author: Dwight W. Hoover

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Dwight Hoover, who grew up on an Iowa farm, recalls the events of day-to-day life in this era, offering detailed descriptions of daily work in each of the year's four seasons. A fascinating if grim reminder of what it was like to be a child with adult responsibilities, Mr. Hoover's unusual memoir recalls the rough edges as well as the happy moments of rural life.


Railways of the East Midlands

Railways of the East Midlands

Author: John Evans

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2022-06-15

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1445698919

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With previously unpublished images, explore the history of the heyday of British railways in the East Midlands.


Capitalism at Work

Capitalism at Work

Author: Robert L. Bradley

Publisher: M & M Scrivener Press

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 098020948X

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Read the Intro Chapter (PDF) View the Ayn Rand Appendix View an interview with author Robert L. Bradley, Jr. at Reason.com Capitalism took the blame for Enron although the company was anything but a free-market enterprise, and company architect was hardly a principled capitalist. On the contrary, Enron was a politically dependent company and, in the end, a grotesque outcome of America's mixed economy. That is the central finding of Robert L. Bradley's "Capitalism at Work": The blame for Enron rests squarely with "political capitalism"--a system in which business firms routinely obtain government intervention to further their own interests at the expense of consumers, taxpayers, and competitors. Although Ken Lay professed allegiance to free markets, he was in fact a consumate politician. Only by manipulating the levers of government was he able to transform Enron from a $3 billion natural gas company to a $100 billion chimera, one that went in a matter of months from seventh place on Fortune's 500 list to bankruptcy. But "Capitalism at Work" goes beyond unmasking Enron's sophisticated foray into political capitalism. Employing the timeless insights of Adam Smith, Samuel Smiles, and Ayn Rand, among others, Bradley shows how fashionable anti-capitalist doctrines set the stage for the ultimate business debacle. Those errant theories, like Enron itself, elevated form over substance, ignored legitimate criticism, and bypassed midcourse correction. Political capitali


Pinetop-Lakeside

Pinetop-Lakeside

Author: Joan Baeza

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467132160

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In 1984, the White Mountain communities of Pinetop and Lakeside in east-central Arizona undertook a "marriage of convenience" and incorporated. Like rival sisters, one was pious and churchgoing while the other was wayward and fun loving. But in the best of American traditions, they formed a town government to provide services for their combined residents.