Jill Jonnes: "Conquering Gotham" (Viking)

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Jill Jonnes: "Conquering Gotham" (Viking)

The epic story of how the Pennsylvania Railroad overcame monumental political, engineering, and financial challenges, tunneled beneath the Hudson and East Rivers and brought train service into New York City one hundred years ago.

The epic story of how the Pennsylvania Railroad overcame monumental political, engineering, and financial challenges, tunneled beneath the Hudson and East Rivers and brought train service into New York City one hundred years ago.

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Jill Jonnes

historian and author of "Conquering Gotham," "Empires of Light" and "South Bronx Rising."

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