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Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jill JonnesAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2008-04-01Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143113249ISBN-10:143113240UPC:9780143113249Book Category:History, TransportationBook Subcategory:United States, RailroadsBook Topic:State & Local, 20th Century, HistorySize:8.46 x 5.50 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCVR7DPJ0B
"Superb. A] first-rate narrative" (The Wall Street Journal) about the controversial construction of New York's beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels, from the author of Eiffel's Tower and Urban Forests

As bestselling books like Ron Chernow's Titan and David McCullough's The Great Bridge affirm, readers are fascinated with the grand personalities and schemes that populated New York at the close of the nineteenth century. Conquering Gotham re- creates the riveting struggle waged by the great Pennsylvania Railroad to build Penn Station and the monumental system of tunnels that would connect water-bound Manhattan to the rest of the continent by rail. Historian Jill Jonnes tells a ravishing tale of snarling plutocrats, engineering feats, and backroom politicking packed with the most colorful figures of Gilded Age New York.

Conquering Gotham will be featured in an upcoming episdoe of PBS's American Experience.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143113249ISBN-10:143113240UPC:9780143113249Book Category:History, TransportationBook Subcategory:United States, RailroadsBook Topic:State & Local, 20th Century, HistorySize:8.46 x 5.50 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCVR7DPJ0B
Jill Jonnes is the author of Conquering Gotham, Urban Forests, Conquering Gotham, Empires of Light, and South Bronx Rising. She was named a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar and has received several grants from the Ford Foundation. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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