Ned M Campbell

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The greatest nation-building enterprise of them all, the transcontinental railroad completed in 1869, proved a feeble engine of economic development but a fecund breeder of financial and political corruption.
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
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