Workin' on the Railroad: Reminiscences from the Age of Steam - Softcover

Reinhardt, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806135255 ISBN 13: 9780806135250

Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003

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"A great pleasure to read, a lively and highly informative look into a great and vanished world, told in the words of the people who ran that world. . . . This was a complex civilization, and a strangely forgotten one. . . . I know of no other book that offers so authoritative and accessible an account of the significance of the American railroad."

"An astute observer of modern society, with a facility for wry humor at the appropriate times, the author offers delightful analogies . . . to remind the reader that society has forfeited certain human relationships in the name of progress."

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The mighty railroad occupied the undisputed center of American public life. The railroad founded cities, populated states, created governments, destroyed the wilderness. It was the great speculator, the political tyrant, the recruiter of immigrants, the opener of new lands, the cynosure of poets and pioneers, the symbol of adventure, opportunity, escape, and power. . . . Yet, the railroad man, for all his historic importance, his archetypal stature, and his economic power, has achieved only a minor position in American literature.”--from Workin’ on the Railroad

In Workin’ on the Railroad, Richard Reinhardt presents firsthand accounts from engineers, brakemen, porters, conductors, section men, roundhouse workers, switchmen, telegraphers, surveyors, and other neglected pioneers who worked the railroad during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Age of Steam.

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• Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0806135255
• ISBN 13: 9780806135250
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336