"Conquering Gotham is a wonderfully-told saga. Jill Jonnes has an eye for detail and an ear for poetry, and she makes the movers and shakers--and the nay-sayers--come alive on the pages of her engrossing book."
Henry Petroski, author of Engineers of Dreams and Pushing the Limits
"An immensely readable, meticulously researched account of the PRR's turn-of-the-century efforts to deliver passengers into Manhattan."
Lorraine B. Diehl, author of The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station
" In the tradition of David McCullough's narratives of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal, Jonnes's elegy to a mighty engineering feat is clearly reported and populated with a well-delineated cast of robber barons, heroic builders and a few crooks sporting handlebar mustaches." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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