Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels

Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels

Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, in a narrative account that describes how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption, the machinations of labor ag…

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