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Informationen zum Autor Rush Loving Jr. is former associate editor of Fortune and former business editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He is author of The Men Who Loved Trains (IUP, 2006). Loving served as assistant director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Jimmy Carter and worked as a consultant specializing in transportation economics, issues before Congress, and corporate communication problems. Klappentext Rush Loving Jr. is former associate editor of Fortune and former business editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He is author of The Men Who Loved Trains (IUP, 2006). Loving served as assistant director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Jimmy Carter and worked as a consultant specializing in transportation economics, issues before Congress, and corporate communication problems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: A Mix of Love and Luck 1. Rumbling up the Horseshoe 2. Averell Harriman and His Streamliner 3. Sin and the Aspiring Reporter 4. Al Perlman Buys a Hill 5. The Country Boy Who Was King of Florida 6. Wooing Bankers With A Railway Car 7. The Locomotive That Sashayed 8. The 'Token Yokel' Meanders North 9. The Biggest Railroad Story of Them All 10. 'The Greatest Thing Since Sex and Watermelon' 11. The Merger That Worked 12. The Dinner Debate With Graham Claytor 13. The Steadfast Colonel And the Unsteady Rock 14. 'Who Knows Hays Watkins?' 15. A Modern Annie Oakley Takes on Lou Menk 16. The Lawyers's Son from Buffalo 17. 'Hays Must Not Know' 18. J. B. Hunt Takes a Ride On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 19. Two Empty Limousines 20. 'They Nod off Regularly on the Job' 21. Déjà vu Once More 22. Their Greatest Task Index
