By Doug Most
EPUB eISBN: 9781466842007
within the past due 19th century, as towns like Boston and long island grew extra congested, the streets turned clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. while the nice snowstorm of 1888 crippled the complete northeast, an answer needed to be came across. brothers from one of many nation's nice families—Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of latest York—pursued the dream of his urban digging America's first subway, and the good race used to be on. the contest among Boston and long island performed out in an period now not not like our personal, one in all financial upheaval, life-changing suggestions, classification conflict, sour political tensions, and the query of America's position within the world.The Race Underground is peopled with the recognized, like Boss Tweed, Grover Cleveland and Thomas Edison, and the not-so-famous, from fabulous engineers to the numerous "sandhogs" who shoveled, hoisted and blasted their approach into the earth's crust, occasionally wasting their lives within the building of the tunnels. Doug so much chronicles the technological know-how of the subway, seems to be on the centuries of fears humans overcame approximately touring underground and tells a narrative as interesting as any ever ripped from the pages of U.S. historical past. The Race Underground is a smart American saga of 2 rival American towns, their wealthy, robust and occasionally corrupt pursuits, and an invention that modified the lives of millions.
About the Author-
Doug so much is the deputy handling editor for beneficial properties on the Boston Globe. he's the writer of consistently in Our Hearts: the tale of Amy Grossberg, Brian Peterson, the being pregnant They concealed and the kid They Killed. He has written for activities Illustrated, Runner's international and oldsters and his tales have seemed in top American Crime Writing and top American activities Writing. He lives in Needham, Massachusetts.
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