The Driver by Garet Garrett
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"The Driver" by Garet Garrett is a novel published in 1922. It follows Henry M. Galt, a brilliant financial speculator who rescues a failing railroad during the panic of 1893 and transforms it into a national asset. Through vision and relentless work, Galt becomes America's wealthiest person, revitalizing the country's economy. But his unprecedented success breeds envy and distrust. Those who cannot understand his genius unite with the federal government to destroy
him and dismantle the empire he built. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Garrett, Garet, 1878-1954 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 22020878 |
| Title | The Driver |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Driver_(novel) |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Tim Lindell, Martin Pettit, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images digitized by the Google Books Library Project (books.google.com) and generously made available by Internet Archive (archive.org/) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 75.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Capitalists and financiers -- Fiction |
| Subject | Railroad stories |
| Subject | Antitrust law -- United States -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 65853 |
| Release Date | Jul 17, 2021 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 513 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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