American ColossusBy: H. W. Brands From the two time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War: a "first rate" narrative history (The New York Times) that brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America. American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century, when a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen transformed the United States from