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Conquering Gotham : A Gilded Age Epic - The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels by Jill Jonnes (2007, Hardcover)

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The epic story of the struggle to connect New York City to the rest of the nation The demolition of Penn Station in 1963 destroyed not just a soaring neoclassical edifice, but also a building that commemorated one of the last centurys great engineering featsthe construction of railroad tunnels into New York City. Now, in this gripping narrative, Jill Jonnes tells this fascinating storya high-stakes drama that pitted the money and will of the nations mightiest railroad against the corruption of Tammany Hall, the unruly forces of nature, and the machinations of labor agitators. In 1901, the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Alexander Cassatt, determined that it was technically feasible to build a system of tunnels connecting Manhattan to New Jersey and Long Island. Confronted by payoff-hungry politicians, brutal underground working conditions, and disastrous blowouts and explosions, it would take him nearly a decade to make Penn Station and its tunnels a reality. Set against the bustling backdrop of Gilded Age New York, "Conquering Gotham" will enthrall fans of David McCulloughs "The Great Bridge" and Ron Chernows "Titan,"

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670031585
ISBN-13
9780670031580
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57162503

Product Key Features

Book Title
Conquering Gotham : a Gilded Age Epic-The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
Author
Jill Jonnes
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Railroads / General, United States / 20th Century, Railroads / History, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Travel, Transportation, History
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Tf302.N7j66 2006
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2006-050171
Dewey Decimal
385.3/14097471
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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by richholst-philaJan 27, 2011
The Pennsylvania Railroad and building of Penn Station.
This is really a page-turner that once begun is hard to put down. It's about a railroad, a city, and the men who made them. A story about America at the turn of the Century with just about every emotion you can experience in one book. The dreams, plans, heartbreaks, and the fight to bring into being, one of the greatest architectural feats of the time in which happened. This book has just about everything for a fan of the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York City and the building of NYC Penn Station. You can almost imagine that you were there with each of the characters as they lived and died making their plans and dreams come true. Jill has written well; you will not be disappointed. Rich Holst, Philadelphia, Pa. January 2011.

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