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. whilst the good snow fall of 1888 crippled the whole northeast, an answer needed to be came upon. brothers from one of many nation's nice families—Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of recent York—pursued the dream of his urban digging America's first subway, and the good race was once on. the contest among Boston and ny performed out in an period no longer not like our personal, one in every of monetary upheaval, life-changing concepts, classification war, sour political tensions, and the query of America's position within the world.The Race Underground is peopled with the well-known, like Boss Tweed, Grover Cleveland and Thomas Edison, and the not-so-famous, from marvelous engineers to the numerous "sandhogs" who shoveled, hoisted and blasted their approach into the earth's crust, occasionally wasting their lives within the development of the tunnels. Doug so much chronicles the technology of the subway, appears on the centuries of fears humans overcame approximately touring underground and tells a narrative as intriguing as any ever ripped from the pages of U.S. background. The Race Underground is a brilliant 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 positive factors 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 global 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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