Doug Most. (2014). The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Doug Most. 2014. The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway. Books on Tape.

Doug Most, The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway. Books on Tape, 2014.

Doug Most. The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2014.

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In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts.  When the great blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found. Two brothers—Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York City—pursued the dream of his city being the first American metropolis to have a subway and the great race was on. The competition between Boston and New York was played out in an era not unlike our own, one of economic upheaval, job losses, bitter political tensions, and the question of America's place in the world.
The Race Underground is peopled with the famous, like Boss Tweed, and Thomas Edison, and the not-so-famous, like the countless "sandhogs" who dug and blasted into the earth's crust, sometimes losing their lives in the process of building the subway's tunnels. Doug Most chronicles the science of the subway, looks at fears people had about travelling underground and tells a story as exciting as any ever ripped from the pages of U.S. history. The Race Underground is a great American saga of two rival American cities, the powerful interests within, and an invention that changed the lives of millions.

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   • content: Narrator John Mayer's wonderfully warm baritone adds enormously to this engaging history of the transformation of rapid transit in the United States from horse-drawn trolleys to electric-powered subways. Listeners will find extensive detail about the men who imagined, engineered, and financed this change. Although he's always even and clear, Mayer sounds like your favorite uncle telling a long, funny story. Most's tapestry offers a below-ground view of how large-scale change happened in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Mayer helps the listener enjoy the story of engineers with revolutionary ideas, wealthy men interested in both doing good and doing well, and city politicians interested in maintaining their power. F.C. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
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     November 25, 2013
     “Constructing the tunnel will be simple, just like cellar digging,” said the original contractor for the New York City subway. Then again, if Most, an editor at the Boston Globe, teaches us anything in this extensive history of the origins of the American subway, it’s that such optimism is woefully misguided. In fact, construction is almost an afterthought given the back-and-forth political maneuvering that occurred before the subway could even pass muster. It’s surprising that the generation of innovators active in the mid-19th-century, who were famed for their industrial expertise and entrepreneurship, were slow to the races in building an underground rail system. When Alfred Beach, groundbreaking editor of Scientific American, first proposed the idea in 1849, he was nearly laughed out of his New York office; 14 years later, London opened its Underground. When Thomas Edison was approached by Frank Sprague, a promising young engineer convinced that an electric motor could spark a revolution in transportation, Edison showed little interest in the idea (though that didn’t stop him from taking credit when Sprague’s engine powered New York’s first subway in 1904). Most’s account too often zigzags, like the dealings he chronicles, and the New York/Boston rivalry doesn’t clearly emerge, but otherwise he delivers a fun and enjoyable read about a vital, transformative period.

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