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The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America is a work of narrative history by Jack Kelly that examines the Pullman Strike of 1894 and the wider industrial world that produced it. Rather than treating the strike as an isolated labor dispute, the book places it inside the larger tensions of the Gilded Age: rapid railroad expansion, corporate consolidation, class inequality, wage pressure, and the political influence of major business interests. Kelly uses the conflict around George Pullman, his company town, and the organizing efforts associated with Eugene V. Debs and the American Railroad Union to show how labor unrest escalated into a national crisis. The book is designed both as historical explanation and as a case study in power, organization, and state response, making it useful for readers who want to understand how industrial capitalism, unionization, and government intervention interacted in late 19th century America.