Tag: Gotham

Free Download Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels by Jill Jonnes
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0143113240 | 384 Pages | EPUB | 1.6 MB
As bestselling books like Ron Chernow’s Titan and David McCullough’s The Great Bridge affirm, readers are fascinated with the grand personalities and schemes that populated New York at the close of the nineteenth century. Conquering Gotham re- creates the riveting struggle waged by the great Pennsylvania Railroad to build Penn Station and the monumental system of tunnels that would connect water-bound Manhattan to the rest of the continent by rail. Historian Jill Jonnes tells a ravishing tale of snarling plutocrats, engineering feats, and backroom politicking packed with the most colorful figures of Gilded Age New York.

Free Download Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860 (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Kyle B. Roberts
English | November 7, 2016 | ISBN: 022638814X | True PDF | 352 pages | 11.3 MB
At first glance, evangelical and Gotham seem like an odd pair. What does a movement of pious converts and reformers have to do with a city notoriously full of temptation and sin? More than you might think, says Kyle B. Roberts, who argues that religion must be considered alongside immigration, commerce, and real estate scarcity as one of the forces that shaped the New York City we know today.