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The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the electricity industry in the U.S. are scarce. Edison to Enron is a readable flowing history of two of America's largest and most colorful industries. It begins with the story of Samuel Insull, a poor boy from England, who started his career as Thomas Edison's right-hand man, then went on his own and became one of America's top industrialists. But when Insull's General Electric's energy empire collapsed during the Great Depression, the hitherto Great Man was denounced and prosecuted and died a pauper. Against that backdrop, the book introduces Ken Lay, a poor boy from Missouri who began his career as an aide to the head of Humble oil, now part of Exxon Mobil. Lay went on to become a Washington bureaucrat and energy regulator and then became the wunderkind of the natural gas industry in the 1980s with Enron. To connect the lives of these two energy giants, Edison to Enron takes the reader through the flamboyant history of the American energy industry, from Texas wildcatters to the great pipeline builders to the Washington wheeler-dealers. From the Reviews ... "This scholarly work fills in much missing history about two of America's most important industries, electricity and natural gas." -Joseph A. Pratt, NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business, University of Houston " ... a remarkable book on the political inner workings of the U.S. energy industry."-- Robert Peltier, PE, Editor-in-Chief, POWER Magazine "This is a powerful story, brilliantly told." -Forrest McDonald, Historian

The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the electricity industry in the U.S. are scarce. Edison to Enron is a readable flowing history of two of America's largest and most colorful industries. It begins with the story of Samuel Insull, a poor boy from England, who started his career as Thomas Edison's right-hand man, then went on his own and became one of America's top industrialists. But when Insull's General Electric's energy empire collapsed during the Great Depression, the hitherto Great Man was denounced and prosecuted and died a pauper. Against that backdrop, the book introduces Ken Lay, a poor boy from Missouri who began his career as an aide to the head of Humble oil, now part of Exxon Mobil. Lay went on to become a Washington bureaucrat and energy regulator and then became the wunderkind of the natural gas industry in the 1980s with Enron. To connect the lives of these two energy giants, Edison to Enron takes the reader through the flamboyant history of the American energy industry, from Texas wildcatters to the great pipeline builders to the Washington wheeler-dealers. From the Reviews ... "This scholarly work fills in much missing history about two of America's most important industries, electricity and natural gas."--Joseph A. Pratt, NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business, University of Houston " ... a remarkable book on the political inner workings of the U.S. energy industry."--Robert Peltier, PE, Editor-in-Chief, POWER Magazine "This is a powerful story, brilliantly told."--Forrest McDonald, Historian

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Heroic Capitalism -- Introduction -- The Soul of Commerce: Adam Smith -- Character and Success: Samuel Smiles -- Supply-Side Ethics: Ayn Rand -- Part II Business Opportunity, Political Opportunism -- Introduction -- Business Opportunity -- The Business of Politics -- U.S. Political Capitalism -- Part III Energy and Sustainability -- Introduction -- Malthusianism -- A Joined Debate -- Neo-Malthusianism -- The Dark Decade -- New Light -- Epilogue Surreal Enron, Real Capitalism -- Appendix A The Ayn Rand Problem -- Appendix B A Taxonomy of Political Capitalism -- Appendix C Gabriel Kolko's Revisionism Reconsidered -- Appendix D Resources for the Future: Away from Optimism -- Source Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

The Forts of Maine, 1607-1945: An Archaeological and Historical Survey by Robert L. Bradley, Ph.D. - Maine Historic Preservation Commission This booklet was co-published in September, 1981 by the Maine Historic Preservation Commission and the Maine Bureau of Parks and Recreation, with Federal funds provided by the Commission through the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, matched by State funds provided by the Bureau of Parks and Recreation. Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., State Historic Preservation Officer ; https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/me_collection/1005/thumbnail.jpg

Informed by Robert L. Heilbroner & Peter J. Boettke's (2009) market vs command economy framework, various terms used to describe the "middle way" or "third way" are categorized. Discussion opens with extended definitions of capitalism & socialism, before looking at the concept of "creeping socialism" as it applies to the US political-economic system since the Civil War. A fourfold political-economic classification system is derived from the dimensions of property ownership (private vs public) & control (private vs public). Attention is then given to the category of the "third way" & a possible fourth way: feudalism. References. D. Edelman