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Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st edition (August 29, 2000)
Publication Date: August 29, 2000
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"Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869," by Stephen E. Ambrose, is a highly readable account of the building of America's Transcontinental Railroad in the mid-nineteenth century. It's the story of the fulfillment of a decades-old dream to link America from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean. It's also a book that's created a firestorm of controversy in the years since its publication.According to Ambrose, the dream of a transcontinental railroad began in the 1830's. During this decade, the United States was in the midst of forty years of peace. There were many local railroads linking towns and cities throughout the United States, most notably in Illinois, Ohio, and California. Still, there was no railroad joining the heavily populated eastern United States with its west coast territories. This became the vision of many entrepreneurs and politicians, most prominently Abraham Lincoln, who said in 1832: "...no other improvement...can equal in utility the rail road."In 1849, the discovery of gold in California gave new urgency to the building of a transcontinental railroad. Most people who headed west in search of gold had to cross the great plains and desert southwest in covered wagons, sail around the southern tip of South America, or traverse the isthmus of Panama on foot.By the 1850's, surveyors had begun searching for possible routes for a transcontinental railroad. The American Civil War interrupted their efforts; when the Civil War ended, political support for the railroad continued to be strong, even after Lincoln's assassination. It seemed like everyone of importance wanted to see the transcontinental railroad built."Nothing Like It in the World" is less a story about the politics behind the building of the transcontinental railroad as it is a tale about how the railroad was actually built, although the book's early chapters are devoted to telling the story of the men who founded the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads, and of their efforts to get support from the Federal government for their endeavors.The vast majority of this book tells the tale of the ordinary people - mostly immigrants, Mormons, ex-Confederate soldiers, and other laborers - who frequently sacrificed life and limb to build the railroad. These were the ones who surveyed routes, laid road beds, built bridges, excavated tunnels, set down ties and track, and drove spikes across the heartland of America.The Central Pacific Railroad began its journey eastward from Sacramento, California in 1865. At almost the same time, the Union Pacific began construction westward from Omaha, Nebraska. On May 10, 1869, the thirty year-old dream of a transcontinental railroad was finally realized at Promontory Summit, Utah. On that date, the final spike that joined the two tracks and connected the east and west coasts of the United States was driven.When I first read "Nothing Like It in the World," I thought it was an excellent book. Ambrose's descriptions of the construction process are superb; the best qualities of Ambrose's writing - his colorful descriptions of people and events and his easy to read narrative style - are always present.Unfortunately, these strengths are offset by the book's many flaws and controversies. Since its publication, "Nothing Like It in the World" has come under close scrutiny and fierce criticism for its allegedly slipshod research, factual errors, and "made-up quotes;" as a result, it has lost a great deal of credibility. Before his death, Ambrose apologized for his errors, and promised to correct them in future editions.I have decidedly mixed feelings about "Nothing Like It in the World." Although I thoroughly enjoyed it for its readability, its many flaws cause me to question its usefulness as a scholarly work of history. Readers should consider other, more detailed, better researched, and historically accurate books on this subject - most notably "Empire Express" by David Haward Bain - before turning to "Nothing Like It in the World."
If I recall correctly, when the book was first published, Ambrose came under some criticism for an alleged plagiarization of some of the passages in this book. For that reason, I refused to buy it for a long time. Although I already have several other books about the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, I did finally buy it just to see if Ambrose had anything new or additional to say about the RR. In fact he did. Some information that earlier authors had offered either incompletely or erroneously, Ambrose got right. If there was any plagiarizing, it is forgiven.It's a good read.
Five stars says I "loved" it, and that's largely true. Frankly, I'm a train-lover who's even visited the fabled Promontory site, and I did enjoy Ambrose's consistently engaging storytelling. This wasn't an easy project for any writer, but Ambrose skillfully tells the story of a railroad being built literally from both ends toward the middle, without the reader losing a sense of time and place.He describes more than building a railroad; he peels back the layers of social, corporate and political intrigue that shaped a project as big as the Trans-Continental Railroad. Which exposed some of our nation's often inspiring but also ugly history: the greed and manipulation, the no-holds-barred competition, the smoke-filled room deals and steals, and the ugly racism that used Chinese (and other) workers as near-disposable parts of a building machine and shamelessly pushed native peoples out of the way. That's part of our un-sanitized history as a nation, and it deserves to be exposed to the light of day.Still, it's a great read. I never got bored. And I still love trains.
This book reads much like a novel. There were wheeler-dealers and there were visionaries. Even Abraham Lincoln was involved! It made me realize just how big a deal a transcontinental railroad was, and the many ways it fast-forwarded the development of America. Also, I knew that my great-great grandfather, a Mormon convert from Sweden who moved his family to America to join Brigham Young in Utah, was killed in a landslide while working on “a railroad†in a place called Weber Canyon. Now I know that it was THAT railroad, and that Weber Canyon was a very important and difficult part of a very difficult endeavor.
This is a superb book by the consummate historian storyteller Stephen Ambrose. It is easy to forget now what a monumental task it was to build a railroad from the midwest to California during 1860's. It was almost like trying to put a man on the moon was a century later. The book is very easy to read, and will fill you with awe, particularly if you ever get a chance to ride the California Zephyr through the Sierra Nevada mountains, across the desert and over the hundreds of miles of mixed terrain that had to be crossed. The feat and the book are absolutely first rate.
Really well written, like all of Mr. Ambrose's books. I live in California and couldn't wait for the next time i went over The Pass on I-80 to see the sites of this remarkable history. When I went over the mountains the next time, I stopped in some of the locations mentioned in the book and was rewarded with great museums, memorials and historic markers of the events and milestones chronicled here. read this book if you want the whole story in one volume.
"Nothing Like It In the World", a book by Stephen E. Ambrose, is a history of railroads in the United States but it is much more. It paves the way for an huge understanding of how the United States grew after the Civil War. It is a "must have" for anyone interested in U.S. and railroad history.
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