Conquering Gotham - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conquering Gotham write by Jill Jonnes. This book was released on 2007. Conquering Gotham available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Conquering Gotham
Conquering Gotham - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conquering Gotham write by Jill Jonnes. This book was released on 2007-04-19. Conquering Gotham available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Superb. [A] first-rate narrative” (The Wall Street Journal) about the controversial construction of New York’s beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels, from the author of Eiffel's Tower and Urban Forests As 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. Conquering Gotham will be featured in an upcoming episdoe of PBS's American Experience.
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic write by Jill Jonnes. This book was released on 2009-05-01. Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the 19th cent. ends, PA Railroad pres. Alexander Cassatt seeks some way -- other than fleets of ferries from N.J. -- to bring the PRR¿s millions of passengers into water-locked Gotham. By 1901 the PRR will build a monumental system of electrified tunnels under the Hudson River, Manhattan, and the East River to Long Island, capping them with the crown jewel of PA Station. And so begins a high-stakes Gilded Age drama pitting the nation¿s greatest corp. against the forces of Tammany N.Y. This narrative brings to life the feats of politicking and engineering that forever changed N.Y.¿s physical and psychological geography. In late 1910, PA Station, Charles McKim¿s great Doric temple to transportation, opens in all its magnificence. Photos.
Conquering Gotham
Conquering Gotham - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conquering Gotham write by Jill Jonnes. This book was released on 2008-03-25. Conquering Gotham available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Superb. [A] first-rate narrative” (The Wall Street Journal) about the controversial construction of New York’s beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels, from the author of Eiffel's Tower and Urban Forests As 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. Conquering Gotham will be featured in an upcoming episdoe of PBS's American Experience.
German Monuments in the Americas
German Monuments in the Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook German Monuments in the Americas write by Hans A. Pohlsander. This book was released on 2010. German Monuments in the Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks at the many transatlantic bonds which have linked and still link Germany and the United States. German immigrants to the Americas brought with them a good deal of cultural baggage. They cultivated their German heritage in their schools, churches, and clubs. They expressed pride in this heritage by erecting monuments to Goethe or Schiller, Beethoven or Wagner, Alexander von Humboldt or «Turnvater» Jahn. They claimed Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Carl Schurz, Gustave Koerner, and John A. Roebling as their own. But German-born or German-trained sculptors did not limit themselves to German subjects. They also paid tribute to America by creating sculptures of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and others who occupy a place of honor in American history. While a few German monuments can be found in Canada and in Latin America, the number of German monuments in the United States is surprisingly large. These monuments illustrate the contribution - often overlooked or ignored - of the German-American community to American society and American cultural life.
