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H. W. Brands is one of the historians made popular by “the Ken Burns phenomenon” of the last quarter century. It seems that so many of us had a football coach for high school history that we didn’t realize how damned interesting the story was – at least until Ken Burns reminded us (I’m guessing he didn’t have a coach for that class). Having arrived ignorantly in adulthood, we were strangely ripe for the pickings of an increasingly ingenious publishing industry. Historians are being thrown up the pop charts on the springs of such unlikely subjects as Lincoln’s cabinet (Doris Kearns Goodwin), the life story of the amazingly stolid John Adams (David McCullough), or the squabbles of the 1780’s in the creation of the Constitution (Joseph J. Ellis). Now we receive the unlikeliest contribution of all: the deepest snooze of American history must surely be the period covered by American Colossus. And Brands’ centerpiece is its most monotonous engine, the growth of business. But wait. It turns out that in the wake of yet another financial disaster brought on by the contesting forces of democracy and capitalism, we could all use a bit of perspective at the moment. I’m sure that Brands noticed an opportunity as Wall Street robbed Main Street yet again. Surveying his notes from the undistinguished epoch from Grant to McKinley, he may have thought: “Hmm. I wonder if I could arrange all these sources and vignettes in a way that seems to tell a tale everyone vaguely knows about but would care to revisit in this particular moment – J. P. Morgan was also too big to fail.” The answer is American Colossus. It really is more episodic than a unified narrative and Brands cannot resist the urge to digress into subjects far more interesting than yet another stock report would be. Yes, there are tales of the Wild West punctuating the otherwise pedestrian march of progress. The economic importance of western expansion could have been explained without (another) detailed recounting of Custer’s Last Stand, but by the time Brands indulges himself in that and other unnecessary sidebars, most readers will be relieved to have a little action. Besides, everything has at least a little economic importance.American Colossus is your high school history book, but written by a person with at least modest literary sense. You will be reminded of all the crap you didn’t understand in high school, but you’ll understand it now for two reasons. First, this is clearer and more interesting than your textbook was (and you dropped $35.00 on this – the triumph of capitalism?). And, second, you have now consumed enough economic chatter and sound bites to choke any captain of industry, and so, this will be more familiar to you than you realize.The title of the book might well have been The More Things Change…. There is hardly a single episode in the time period covered by this book that doesn’t find its close analogy in the history of the last two decades. It is demoralizing to contemplate, with dawning awareness, how little we have learned in the last century. The business cycle continues unabated, and the cord that tethers capitalism to democracy remains taut. One pictures a team of donkeys pulling one way against an elephant pointed the opposite direction. Those who tend to interpret the roles of Republicans and Democrats as having shifted greatly since the Civil War will have to answer to Brands’ arguments, which tend to show the overarching unity of viewpoint that pervades their respective histories. If there is one great difference between the late 19th century and the early 21st, it is that the Republicans instead of the Democrats are now saddled with the government-hating populists.To his credit, Brands resists the urge to moralize or politicize the stories. Instead, he allows the tension between capitalism and democracy to hold the two competing forces of history while narrating the thoughts and motives of crucial individual players on both sides. We have the stories of the moguls such as Carnegie and Rockefeller, and also of the true believers in democratic reform such as Theodore Roosevelt. No one receives unqualified sympathy or heavy-handed condemnation. Thus, the book makes suitable reading even for ideologues in the present. This approach seems to suit the capitalist impulses of its publishers without indicting their political consciences, if they have any.
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