Jill Jonnes

Conquering Gotham

Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels

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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 contine… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-101-21889-1
EAN: 9781101218891
Produktnummer: 17992169
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'698 KB

Über den Autor

Jill Jonnes is the author of Conquering Gotham, Urban Forests, Conquering Gotham, Empires of Light, and South Bronx Rising. She was named a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar and has received several grants from the Ford Foundation. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.