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　　"Superb. [A] first-rate narrative" (The Wall Street Journal )

about the controversial construction of New York's beloved original

Penn Station and its tunnels

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.

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　　Jill Jonnes is a historian and has been a National Endowment

for the Humanities scholar.

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媒体评论

　　"A human account of how a few visionaries from the

Pennsylvania Railroad connected the rest of the country to the

nation's greatest port, and how their Philadelphia-centric

perspective doomed the world's largest train station."

　　-Sam Roberts, The New York Times

　　"Lush and lovely prose."

　　-The Baltimore Sun

　　"In the tradition of David McCullough's narrative

书籍介绍

"Superb. [A] first-rate narrative" ( The Wall Street Journal ) about the controversial construction of New York's beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels

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.