New Book: "Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America" by Richard White

"'Railroaded': Richard White's history of the messy, haphazard development of America's railroads" by Bruce Ramsey, © The Seattle Times, June 4, 2011. (Book Review)

"Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, historian Richard White's account of the development of America's transcontinental railroads, is a story rife with messiness and failure, 'the triumph of the unfit.' Nonetheless, the routes mapped out in the 19th century are the ones we still use today. ... " [More]

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