Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869
Language: English
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- New
Condition: New
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STEPHEN E. AMBROSE - NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD - THE MEN WHO BUILT THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD 1863-1869 *** SIGNED IN MY PERSON BY THE AUTHOR - STEPHEN E. AMBROSE *** Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad—the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks. The U.S. government pitted two companies—the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads—against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomotives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes vibrantly to life. Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon. He received his Ph.D. in 1960 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In his final years he faced charges of plagiarism for his books, with subsequent concerns about his research emerging after his death.…
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- Title
- Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869
- Author
- Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, New York
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0684846098
- ISBN 13
- 9780684846095
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 726 grams
- Dimensions
- 3.81 centimeters width by 16.51 centimeters height by 24.77 centimeters depth
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