Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 416
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-1-56663-138-9 • Hardback • November 1997 • $30.00 • (£22.95)
A compelling argument.
— Journal of Southern History
Engaging and nicely written, with a definitive and sustained point of view.
— Virginia Quarterly Review
Continually intriguing and particularly rich...layered.
— Michael Kennedy; Chicago Tribune
One of the best accounts I have read of the railroad in America. It blends history, technology, business, and social concerns to achieve a total perspective.
— James F. Goodwin, former president, Connecticut Central Railroad; Columbia University
A quite wonderful book...richly textured and intellectually stimulating.
— Elizabeth Blackmur; Columbia University
The nation was forever changed by the triumph of the railroads