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| Last Train to Paradise : Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossedan Ocean |
| By : Les Standiford, Henry Morrison Flagler |
In Last Train to Paradise novelist Les Standiford has written a lively, felicitous account of the building of the Florida East Coast Railway, which, for a little over two decades, connected mainland Florida with Key West. Henry Morrison Flagler, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil partner and, in many eyes, the true genius behind that company, embarked on the project in 1905 when he was 74 years old. The railroad, which crossed more than 150 miles of open sea, was an engineering feat nearly equal in scale and difficulty to the digging of the Panama Canal...
Publisher: Crown List Price: 24.00 Customer Rating: 4.25 / 5.0 
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