From the Book - 1st edition.
Chapter 1. America's first business, 1763-1789
Chapter 2. Manufacturing and banking, 1790-1815
Chapter 3. Canals and railroads change everything, 1816-1843
Chapter 4. Land, gold, the telegraph, and oil, 1844-1859
Chapter 5. "And the War came," 1860-1877
Chapter 6. The Gilded Age, 1878-1898
Chapter 7. Combination and reform, 1899-1912
Chapter 8. Mass production, cars, and war, 1913-1920
Chapter 9. Excess and depression, 1921-1939
Chapter 10. The business of war and the postwar boom, 1940-1958
Chapter 11. A business Golden Age, 1959-1972
Chapter 12. Oil overdependence and malaise, 1973-1980
Chapter 13. The stormy eighties, 1981-1995
Chapter 14. The digital revolution and financial crisis, 1996-2015.