Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (906 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0000547HG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 147 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mark Pfennigstag said A good account of the precedings and proceedings of the first US transcontinental RR. If I recall correctly, when the book was first published, Ambrose came under some criticism for an alleged plagiarization of some of the passages in this book. For that reason, I refused to buy it for a long time. Although I already have several other books about the construc. Well Done Really well written, like all of Mr. Ambrose's books. I live in California and couldn't wait for the next time i went over The Pass on I-80 to see the sites of this remarkable history. When I went over the mountains the next time, I stopped in some of the locations mentioned . John J. Bailey said "Nothing Like It In The World," a book by Stephen E. Ambrose, is a must have!. "Nothing Like It In the World", a book by Stephen E. Ambrose, is a history of railroads in the United States but it is much more. It paves the way for an huge understanding of how the United States grew after the Civil War. It is a "must have" for anyone interested in U.S. an
In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, living off buffalo, deer, and antelope. Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men -- the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary -- who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation.. Nothing like this great work had ever been seen in the world when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in Promontory Peak, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined. At its peak, the work force approached the size of Civil War armies, with a
Abraham Lincoln, who had worked as a riverboat pilot before turning to politics, knew a thing or two about the problems of transporting goods and people from place to place. --Gregory McNamee. David Haward Bain's Empire Express, which covers the same ground, is more substantial, but Ambrose provides an eminently readable study of a complex episode in American history. In the end, Ambrose writes, Lincoln's dream transformed the nation, marking "the first great triumph over time and space" and inaugurating what has come to