The Cinder Buggy: A Fable in Iron and Steel
| Title | 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 |
| Authors | Garrett, Garet |
| Publisher | E. P. Dutton & Company |
| City | New York |
| Keywords | banking industry; British Americans; German Americans; Homestead Steel Strike of 1892; Hungarian Americans; Irish Americans; iron industry; labor strikes; Pinkerton Detective National Agency; Polish Americans; Slavic Americans; steel industry; Swedish Americans; trade unions; Welsh Americans |
| 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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