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Larry Haeg and his family have a home in the Flandrau-Fitzgerald neighborhood of Ramsey Hill in St. Paul, Minnesota

Incluye los nombres: Jr. Larry Haeg, Lawrence Peter Haeg

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How you respond to this book will largely depend on your politics as the author bends over backwards to build up the likes of J.P. Morgan, James J. Hill, Edward Harriman and their contemporaries as great men, while denouncing Teddy Roosevelt and other Progressive politicians as being nothing more than "...bureaucratic central planners and distorters of markets in disguise." This is just the sort of language I would expect from a former corporate propaganda flack, particularly one who used to be an executive at Wells Fargo, a firm, as I recall, who had as much to do with the crash of 2008 as anyone. While it is not to be denied that the American railroad industry wound up being very much over-regulated, the author also glosses over the small matter that these men also almost brought down the national economy of the time due to their machinations over the control of the American railroad industry. There is no recognition by the author that, just maybe, these men earned their public notoriety and loss of trust in this particular case. Still, if you keep in mind that this is very much the Chamber of Commerce history of the events in question, you will learn a great deal about how the railroads were run and the financial battles over controlling them.… (más)
 
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Shrike58 | otra reseña | Jan 17, 2017 |
Born 1871. This biography by Larry Haeg proves what I've always said about biographies: It doesn't matter who the subject is if the biography is well-written. Who in the world knows Charles Flandrau? I certainly didn't, but I loved this biog. I found it when I was reading about his sister-in-law, Theodate Pope Riddle. I wish Larry Haeg had written Theodate's biography. Heh. He probably does too.

Oh how I wish someone would publish an edition of Charlie's correspondence. Haeg says that Charlie approached letter-writing as an art form.

He had such a wicked, nasty tongue. He referred to three dowager women friends as "sexually unemployed." They were "fat females in tight black silk dresses that made little squeaking sounds in the upper abdominal regions." He was an alcoholic, and Haeg tells us that alcohol "revealed his cruel, malicious streak." The youthful Charlie shied away from Radcliffe women--"all alike and all unendurable."

One final word from Charlie. Oh God, Charlie, how I relate: "Grace is really almost a brilliant person, but in all sincerity, at the age of almost fifty, I no longer give a damn about brilliancy."
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labwriter | Jan 3, 2010 |

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