America's first business, 1763-1789 -- Manufacturing and banking, 1790-1815 -- Canals and railroads change everything, 1816-1843 -- Land, gold, the telegraph, and oil, 1844-1859 -- "And the War came," 1860-1877 -- The Gilded Age, 1878-1898 -- Combination and reform, 1899-1912 -- Mass production, cars, and war, 1913-1920 -- Excess and depression, 1921-1939 -- The business of war and the postwar boom, 1940-1958 -- A business Golden Age, 1959-1972 -- Oil overdependence and malaise, 1973-1980 -- The stormy eighties, 1981-1995 -- The digital revolution and financial crisis, 1996-2015.
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