The Cinder Buggy: A Fable in Iron and Steel

Year of Publication
1923
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
357 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Garet Garrett
Publisher
E. P. Dutton & Company
City
New York
Genre
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Abstract
A historical and political novel starring John Breakspeare, pioneer of the emerging Pennsylvania steel industry who leads a titanic battle over whether steel or iron will triumph. The primary setting, New Damascus, is a fictitious mill town along the Susquehanna, but the Pittsburgh steel district is visited repeatedly in the novel.
Notes
Garet Garrett is a pseudonym of Edward Peter Garrett (1878-1954).
Author Biography
Edward Peter Garrett (1878-1954), born in Illinois and raised in Iowa, was a New York financial journalist and libertarian who is best remembered for his opposition to the New Deal and American involvement in the World Wars. His trilogy of novels on the impact of economic transformations greatly influenced the novels of Ayn Rand. Garrett died at his home in New Jersey.
Time
1820s-70s
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