کتاب مرتبط: چگونه قطارها، ژن‌ها، آناناس‌ها، کلیدهای پیانو و چند فاجعه، آمریکایی‌ها را در سپیده دم قرن بیستم متحول کرد

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation: having formerly lived as individuals or members of small communities, they now found themselves living in networks—physical, social, and political—which bound them together in ways never previously imagined.