New Book - "Rival Rails" - Race to Complete Transcontinental Routes

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I heard an interview with the author of this book on NPR’s Weekend Edition - Saturday program yesterday - it seems to have a different view of the familair story:

Rival Rails: The Race to Build America’s Greatest Transcontinental Railroad by Walter R. Borneman, Random House (Sept. 28, 2010), $28, ISBN-10: 1400065615, ISBN-13: 978-1400065615, 432 pages.Link to the transcript of the NPR interview segment:

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=130762740

Link to NPR’s webpage on the book:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130762740

Link to Amazon’s webpage for it - it has 2 ‘5-star’ reviews so far:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400065615/npr-5-20

I’d be interested in comments from anyone here who reads it.

  • Paul North.