Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, and Inventors and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation
History Unplugged Podcast
History Unplugged
4.2 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast, the unscripted show that celebrates unsung |
| 0:08.0 | heroes, myth busts historical lies, and rediscovers the forgotten stories that changed our world. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm your host, Scott Rank. |
| 0:26.2 | Before the Civil War, the American economy was a lot like Russia. |
| 0:30.7 | It was agriculturally based, and it depended on the labor of people who didn't have full legal rights. |
| 0:32.2 | But after the Civil War, America rapidly industrialized and it became a lot more Western |
| 0:36.3 | European in how its economy was |
| 0:37.9 | set up. What was the tipping point? Was it just the emancipation of slaves? Well, it was actually a lot |
| 0:44.2 | more than that and it was a story of industrialists who got directly involved in the war effort |
| 0:48.9 | and radically transformed America. In this episode, I'm talking with Jeffrey Wirt, who's the author of the new book, Civil |
| 0:55.9 | War Barrens. |
| 0:58.9 | Hi, everyone. |
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| 1:27.2 | The tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation. |
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