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John E. Morris

Subway

The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System

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This dynamic visual history of the world's largest transit system -- in all its intriguing, colorful, and even seedy glory -- is packed with fascinating facts and hundreds of compelling photographs.When the first New York subway line opened in 1904, it was the most advanced in the world and a source of enormous civic pride. Today, it is an essential function to the lives of New Yorkers and a perennial cultural touchstone. To be a New Yorker is to take the train. To celebrate it, or grumble about it. Subway: The History, Curiosities, and Secrets of the New York City Transit System by John E. Morris is both a vivid history of this great transpo… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-7624-6789-1
  • EAN: 9780762467891
  • Produktnummer: 33500253
  • Verlag: Running Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 44'725 KB

Über den Autor


John E. Morris has been fascinated by trains and transit systems since childhood, and has indulged this passion while pursuing careers as a lawyer, later as a journalist. He has worked as an editor and reporter at the American Lawyer magazine, The Deal, Dow Jones, and Bloomberg News, and he's the coauthor with David Carey of King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone, a history of the Blackstone Group and the private equity industry. He holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a JD from Harvard Law School. He lives in New York.

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