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The Union had won the Civil War and abolished slavery. However, Lincoln, an early champion of railroads, would not live to see the next great achievment. The governmentpitted the Union Pacific against the Central Pacific in a race that encouraged speed over caution. Locomotives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the east through Panama, around South America, or lugged across country. The railroad was the last great building project to be done by hand. The brave men who built the American Transcontinental Railroad between 1865 and 1869 came from China, Ireland and the defeated South.

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Conn Nugent New York Post Climb aboard...this lively tale, a colorful, edifying story of U.S. history....Ambrose is the bard of American accomplishment.

Henry Kisor The New York Times Book Review Richly readable...[Stephen Ambrose] bears the reader on shoulders of wonder and excitement. Conn Nugent New York Post Climb aboard...this lively tale, a colorful, edifying story of U.S. history....Ambrose is the bard of American accomplishment. Bob Minzesheimer USA Today Historian Stephen Ambrose has done it again....Ambrose should be read as much for his muscular prose and talent to get at the heart of the matter as for his research. Time, naming Nothing Like It in the World as the #1 Nonfiction Book of the YearThis magnificent tale of high finance, low finagling, and workers hacking through 2,000 miles is magnificently told. Bob Minzesheimer USA Today Historian Stephen Ambrose has done it again....Ambrose should be read as much for his muscular prose and talent to get at the heart of the matter as for his research. Time, naming Nothing Like It in the World as the #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year This magnificent tale of high finance, low finagling, and workers hacking through 2,000 miles is magnificently told. Henry Kisor The New York Times Book Review Richly readable...[Stephen Ambrose] bears the reader on shoulders of wonder and excitement. Conn Nugent New York Post Climb aboard...this lively tale, a colorful, edifying story of U.S. history....Ambrose is the bard of American accomplishment. Richly readable...[Stephen Ambrose] bears the reader on shoulders of wonder and excitement.--Henry Kisor The New York Times Book Review This magnificent tale of high finance, low finagling, and workers hacking through 2,000 miles is magnificently told.--Time, naming Nothing Like It in the World as the #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year Climb aboard...this lively tale, a colorful, edifying story of U.S. history....Ambrose is the bard of American accomplishment.--Conn Nugent New York Post Stephen Ambrose has done it again....Ambrose should be read as much for his muscular prose and talent to get at the heart of the matter as for his research.--Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today Historian Henry Kisor The New York Times Book Review Richly readable...[Stephen Ambrose] bears the reader on shoulders of wonder and excitement. Bob Minzesheimer USA Today Historian Stephen Ambrose has done it again....Ambrose should be read as much for his muscular prose and talent to get at the heart of the matter as for his research. Conn Nugent New York Post Climb aboard...this lively tale, a colorful, edifying story of U.S. history....Ambrose is the bard of American accomplishment.

Time, naming Nothing Like It in the World as the #1 Nonfiction Book of the YearThis magnificent tale of high finance, low finagling, and workers hacking through 2,000 miles is magnificently told.

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Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of numerous books on history and is founder of the Eisenhower Centre and the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans.

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