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Streszczenie książki Kierowca
- 8 min czytania
- 10 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
A small, restless speculator seizes a bankrupt railroad and sets out to drive it across a continent.
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Kierowca — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 4 h 35 min3 h 35 min fast, 5 h 25 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 65 100
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1922by Garet Garrett
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Kierowca in short
The Driver follows one man's climb from a speculator sneered at on the Stock Exchange to the master of a railroad system that spans the continent. Galt buys what others abandon, builds when others fear, and moves men by a will nobody can explain. Around him a country recovers from a fever of money delusions, and an old order gives way.
What Kierowca is about
It is Easter Sunday in 1894, and a whole Ohio village has come out to laugh. A man on a white horse and a man in a buggy, each claiming to be Christ come again, lead about a hundred ragged men toward Washington. Behind them trails a crowd of reporters, and one of them will take a confidential reporting job for a railroad president.
The Driver is a novel by Garet Garrett, a journalist who wrote about money, business and politics. It follows Henry M. Galt, a small, restless speculator who seizes a bankrupt railroad and builds it into a system that spans the continent. You get boardrooms, panics, and a family that cannot enjoy its fortune.
Dla kogo. For readers who love tales of ambition, from a self-made tycoon's rise to Wall Street drama. It also rewards anyone curious about railroads, money, and the families beside great fortunes.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A crusade of tramps marches on Washington
The book opens with a parade that is half circus and half prayer. Jacob Coxey and Carl Browne lead the Army of the Commonweal of Christ out of Massillon, Ohio. Coxey hopes delayed marchers will join him, yet barely a hundred follow. Coxey's plan is simple. Congress should create money and hire the unemployed to build roads.
The narrator is one of forty-three correspondents trailing the march. That night the reporters argue over what it means. A pale agitator says money no longer serves people and people now serve money. The others shout him down, yet none of them loves Wall Street. Next morning the narrator takes a side job, sending confidential daily reports to John J. Valentine, president of the Great Midwestern Railroad.
The marchers prove to be honest men who average twelve paid workdays a year. The Army ends in arrests on the Capitol lawn, and the laughter covers a real fear about work. A joke that spreads across a country is often a question the country cannot yet answer.
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A sour stranger and a gentle railroad president
On the train to New York, the narrator hears two editors quarrel over tariffs and Coxeyism.
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Where nobody believes, one believer stands out
The Great Midwestern's office is a gloomy place.
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Galt's workshop holds a map of an empire
Galt invites the narrator home to dinner.
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A nation goes mad and the railroad goes bust
The author steps back to explain the age.
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Galt sells the bankers a plan and seizes the board
While the court holds the railroad, Galt takes the old vice president's desk and works day and night.
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The old president is pushed out of his chair
With power in hand, Galt rebuilds the road.
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Wealth buys a mansion but not a welcome
Valentine's fall has a social cost.
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Power builds a castle and gathers enemies
Success makes Galt a monarch.
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Belief, power and the cost of both
The first theme is power.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Coxey The young reporter who tells the story, becomes Galt's private secretary and companion, and is drawn into the Galt family's life.
- Henry M. Galt A small, restless Wall Street speculator who believes in a bankrupt railroad and wants to build it into a system that spans the continent.
- Vera Galt Galt's elder daughter, a cold, brilliant beauty who guards her freedom, collects radical art and resents her father's gambles.
- Natalie Galt Galt's younger daughter, warm, quick and fearless, who adores her father, loves horses and fast cars, and wants to help him.
- John J. Valentine The courtly, aristocratic president of the Great Midwestern, who defends property and railroads and fears that Galt is taking his place.
- Mordecai The cautious, lisping banker who backs Galt's plan and hopes to manage him, and who stays loyal through every storm.
- Jerome Bullguard The unseen ruler of Wall Street who joins his enemies in a plot to break Galt's power and credit.
- Gram'ma Galt Galt's silent, fierce old mother, who asks the price of Great Midwestern stock every evening and quietly believes in her son.
How it ends (spoiler)
Galt wins his Washington hearing, then collapses with a stroke at Moonstool. Paralyzed but alert, he rules Wall Street through Mordecai and plans a railroad linking the Americas. One night he asks with his eyes that Coxey marry Natalie, and then he never opens them again. His old enemies, Bullguard among them, attend the funeral. Natalie drifts away and evades Coxey around the world, until she welcomes him home with a laugh and a hug.
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Pytania o Kierowca
What is The Driver by Garet Garrett about?
It tells how Henry M. Galt, a small Wall Street speculator, takes over a bankrupt railroad, rebuilds it and grows it into a continental system. His secretary Coxey narrates, watching boardroom fights, panics and the strain on Galt's family.
Who is Coxey in The Driver?
Coxey is the narrator's nickname, given by Galt. He is a young newspaper reporter who follows Coxey's Army of unemployed marchers in 1894, then becomes Valentine's private secretary and later Galt's closest aide and friend.
What does the title The Driver mean?
It comes from Galt's own words when a traffic manager asks who he is. He says he is the driver, meaning the one who steers the railroad, sets its pace and takes control of its direction.
Is The Driver a true story?
It is a novel, though it uses real events of the 1890s such as Coxey's Army, the gold and silver quarrel and the panic of 1893. Galt and his rivals are fictional figures built from the age's financiers.
Is The Driver worth reading today?
Yes, if you like lively business drama. Its scenes are vivid, from a muddy Easter march to a board meeting and a Washington hearing, and its questions about belief, markets and power still feel current.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Garrett, Garet. The Driver. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-driver.
Garrett, G. (2026). The driver. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-driver (Original work published 1922)
Garrett, Garet. The Driver. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-driver.
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