"There is properly no history, only biography," Emerson remarked, and in this ingenious book Thomas McGraw unfolds the history of four powerful men: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, and Alfred E. Kahn. The absorbing stories he tells make this a book that will appeal across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and to all readers interested in history, biography, and Americana.

Annual reports, payrolls, labor records, rules and regulations, timetables, ticket sales reports, rosters, histories, and other records, documenting the history and administration of the railroad; together with related correspondence and papers of Marium E. Foster, a railroad employee. Includes names and addresses of Boston and Maine employees serving in the U.S. Armed Forces in 1944.