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 ofEiffel's Tower andUrban 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...
Superb. A] first-rate narrative (The Wall Street Journal) about the controversial construction of New York s beloved original Penn Station...
The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world s fair that introduced it, by the author of Conquering Gotham and Urban Forests In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of Conquering Gotham-offers an eye- opening look not only at the construction of one of the modern world's most iconic structures, but also the epochal event that surrounded its arrival as a wonder of the world. In this marvelously entertaining portrait of Belle Epoque France, fear and loathing over Eiffel's brash design...
The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world s fair that introduced it, by the author of Conquering Gotham and Urb...