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| Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad |
| By : David Haward Bain |
David Haward Bain's superb narrative of westward rail history, weighing in at 800 pages, ends not with this great achievement but with the political and financial scandal that would almost overshadow it. Along the way Bain looks closely at the entrepreneurial men who foresaw the possibilities of a vast nation joined by a steel ribbon--most memorably the hit-and-miss businessman Asa Whitney, who proposed to Congress an ingenious scheme to fund the building of the railroad through commercializing the right of way...
Publisher: Viking Press List Price: 34.95 Customer Rating: 3.76 / 5.0 
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