The Race Underground : Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway (Hardcover)

from schufman

Lots of interesting historical detail, but the overall narrative is extremely white, extremely capitalist, and doesn't contextualize and talk about the systems that allowed for these white men to play pawns with "progress" within larger society. I wish the narrative had acknowledged that these me...

from cjordan916

In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found. Two brothers-Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Co...

from NancyNo5

I won this book in exchange for an honest review. I unfortunately could not bring myself to finish this book. I found several challenges with this book. Of what I have read, I have found this book to be fraught with convoluted chapters, a multitude of secondary characters who appear for no more t...

from dougcornelius

A deep dive into the start of subways in New York and Boston. Horse draw carriages, then horse drawn trolleys ruled the streets. The streets were jammed with these vehicles making it unsafe for pedestrians to cross the streets. There were so many that the streets were jammed. If the cities were t...