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America's News by NewsBank includes full-text articles from:
- Goffstown News (2009 - 2018) and Neighborhood News (2019 to current)
- New Hampshire Union Leader (1989 to current)
- Concord Monitor
- National, regional, and local news covered by over 3,700 U.S. news sources with archives back to the 1980s.
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Novel of social criticism dealing with one man's obsessive drive for money, power, and property.
Based on the life of railway tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes, the epic narrative spans from the aftermath of the Civil War to the Great Chicago Fire and the Panic of 1873. Both a glimpse of a fascinating period in American history and a timeless portrait of the dark side of human nature, this is the compelling tale the Wall Street Journal hailed as "the...