An enjoyable book. It is written in what seems to be a popular approach, that is having several different parallel story lines running at the same time in order to give a more complete, or at least a broader perspective of the main story or subject of the book. The method also serves to set the...
Pick this up in the airport in NY on the way to Spain and France. Easy read with lots of interwoven facts.The organizers of the 1889 Paris world's fair wanted to build some towering monument to be the centerpiece of their exposition. Many structures were submitted including a giant guillotine but...
The epic story of the struggle to connect New York City to the rest of the nation The demolition of Penn Station in 1963 destroyed not just a soaring neoclassical edifice but also a building that commemorated one of the last century's great engineering feats—the construction of railroad tunnels i...