Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, (Paperback)

from cyderry

This book is divided into 5 sections - the vision, the action the creation, the path, the aftermath. The first section of this book begins with identification of those people who believed that the expansion of the United States required the improvement of its waterways to allow for easier navigat...

from setnahkt

At first this book was a little disappointing. I was expecting something more on the lines McCullogh's book about the Panama Canal, The Path Between the Seas, with details of the difficulties and methods involved in construction of the Erie Canal. However, the author of Wedding of the Waters is a...

from Schmerguls

5594. Wedding of the Waters The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, by Peter L. Bernstein (read 14 Nov 2018) This book tells in easy reading style of the Erie Canal, which was built in New York State, by New York State, from 1818 to 1825. I remember in grade school history learning of th...

from JBD1

A generally unimpressive account of the creation of the Erie Canal, covering both the political and an engineering aspects. I felt like this story had much more potential than Bernstein was able to execute. Probably safe to give this one a miss.

from NielsenGW

At the beginning of the 19th century, the United States was just getting its feet wet as a nation. One of the many problems in governing the country was simply its size. Getting news and goods from one side of the colonies to another could take an inordinately long time. At the time, water-based ...