The new century opened with an assassination and closed with a nation already transformed. Theodore Roosevelt stepped into the presidency and used it with restless energy — breaking trusts, protecting land, building a canal across Panama, and projecting American power across the oceans. The Wright brothers flew. Henry Ford put the Model T within reach of ordinary families. A devastating earthquake leveled San Francisco. A financial panic nearly brought the banking system down until J.P. Morgan stepped in. Jim Rand walks through the decade that turned the United States into an industrial giant and a rising world power, and shows what those changes meant for the people living through them.

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