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Conquering Gotham
Jill Jonnes
其他書名
Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels
出版
Penguin
, 2007-04-19
主題
Architecture / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Transportation / Railroads / History
History / United States / 19th Century
ISBN
1101218894
9781101218891
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZIK3zRHSx3cC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
“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.