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Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, in a narrative account that describes how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption, the machinations of labor agitators, and the forces of nature in order to create a tunnel system linking Manhattan, New Jersey, and Long Island.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jill Jonnes is a historian and the author of Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World and South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of an American City. She has been a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar and received several grants from the Ford Foundation.
Titel: Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The ...
Verlag: Viking Adult
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket