@article{717322,
      recid = {717322},
      author = {Most, Doug.},
      title = {The race underground : Boston, New York, and the  incredible rivalry that built America's first subway /},
      pages = {viii, 404 pages :},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/717322},
}