Doug Most

Documents the dramatic and sometimes deadly competition between New York and Boston to build the first American subway, describing the rivalry between two brother subway engineers and their famous supporters.

Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway

The Race Underground

Kerry Gibbons

Pretty good. It definitely dragged at points and the set up of some big rivalry between Boston and New York — and between the Whitney brothers — did not manifest itself. Why title your book "The Race Underground" if there was no race??

Anyway pretty good.

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

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