The great American railroad war
how Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris took on the notorious Central Pacific Railroad
by Dennis Drabelle
The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen. The Central Pacific Railroad accepted US Government loans; but, when the loans fell due, the last surviving founder of the railroad avoided repayment. Bierce, at the behest of his boss William Randolph Hearst, swung into action writing over sixty stinging articles that became a signal achievement in American journalism. Later, Norris focused the first volume of his trilogy, The Octopus, on the freight cars of a thinly disguised version of the Central Pacific.
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The great American railroad war: how Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris took on the notorious Central Pacific Railroad
2012, St. Martin's Press
in English
- 1st ed.
0312667590 9780312667597
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