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Stephen Ambrose is one of America's pre-eminent historical writers.
In Nothing Like It in the World, Ambrose tells the story of the
laborers as well as the movers and shakers who laid the steel tracks
that took the railroad from coast to coast. According to Ambrose, this
achievement is second in importance only to abolishing slavery.
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Bob Harmon
Wendell Huffman
Cindie Geddes
Rosemary McCarthy
Links
for this book:
salon.com
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Also
by this author:
The
Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-25's over Germany;
Simon & Schuster; May 2002
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy
to Hitler's Eagle's Nest;
Simon & Schuster; September 2001
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