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Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, describing how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption and the forces of nature to create a tunnel system linking Manhattan, New Jersey, and Long Island.
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Conquering Gotham
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Electronic resource
in English
1429528877 9781429528870
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Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels
March 25, 2008, Penguin (Non-Classics)
Paperback
in English
0143113240 9780143113249
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Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
April 1, 2007, Tantor Media
Audio CD
in English
- Unabridged edition
140010436X 9781400104369
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Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
April 19, 2007, Viking Adult
Hardcover
in English
0670031585 9780670031580
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Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
May 1, 2007, Tantor Media
MP3 CD
in English
- MP3 edition
1400154367 9781400154364
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Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
May 1, 2007, Tantor Media
Audio CD
in English
1400134366 9781400134366
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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 tunnelsAs 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 continent by rail. Historian Jill Jonnes tells a ravishing tale of snarling plutocrats, engineering feats, and backroom politicking packed with the most colorful figures of Gilded Age New York.
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