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Race Underground Paperback - 2015

by Doug Most


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In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire northeast, a solution had to be found. Two brothers from one of the nation's great families-Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York-pursued the dream of his city digging America's first subway, and the great race was on. The competition between Boston and New York played out in an era not unlike our own, one of economic upheaval, life-changing innovations, class warfare, bitter political tensions, and the question of America's place in the world.
The Race Underground is peopled with the famous, like Boss Tweed, Grover Cleveland and Thomas Edison, and the not-so-famous, from brilliant engineers to the countless sandhogs who shoveled, hoisted and blasted their way into the earth's crust, sometimes losing their lives in the construction of the tunnels. Doug Most chronicles the science of the subway, looks at the centuries of fears people overcame about traveling underground and tells a story as exciting as any ever ripped from the pages of U.S. history. The Race Underground is a great American saga of two rival American cities, their rich, powerful and sometimes corrupt interests, and an invention that changed the lives of millions.

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  • Title Race Underground
  • Author Doug Most
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL
  • Date 2015-02-10
  • ISBN 9781250061355 / 1250061350
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.1 in (21.59 x 13.72 x 2.79 cm)
  • Reading level 1280
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: New England
  • Library of Congress subjects Competition - United States, Boston (Mass.) - History - 19th century
  • Dewey Decimal Code 388.420

About the author

Doug Most is the deputy managing editor for features at The Boston Globe. He is the author of Always in Our Hearts: The Story of Amy Grossberg, Brian Peterson, the Pregnancy They Hid and the Child They Killed. He has written for Sports Illustrated, Runner's World and Parents and his stories have appeared in Best American Crime Writing and Best American Sports Writing. He lives in Needham, Massachusetts.

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