Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad - Brossura

Bain, David Haward

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ISBN 10: 0140084991 ISBN 13: 9780140084993

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2000

Riassunto

A dramatic history of the construction of America's first transcontinental railroad chronicles three seminal decades in American history, describing the vast enterprise to build a railroad from Missouri to the Pacific in terms of the remarkable expansion of the United States of America. Reprint.

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L'autore:

David Haward Bain is the author of four previous works of nonfiction, including Empire Express and Sitting in Darkness, which received a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award. His articles and essays have appeared in Smithsonian, American Heritage, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner, and he reviews regularly for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and Newsday. He is a teacher at Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

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Book by Bain David Haward

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0140084991
• ISBN 13: 9780140084993
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 848