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In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and NY grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 brought NEW YORK to a halt, a remedy needed to be found. Two brothers - Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of NEW YORK - pursued the dream of his city being the first American metropolis to have a subway and the great competition was on. Your competition between Boston and NY was enjoyed out in an era not unlike our very own, one of economic upheaval, job losses, bitter politics tensions, and the question of America's place in the world. The Race Underground is peopled with the famous, like Manager Tweed, and Thomas Edison, and the not-so-famous, like the many "sandhogs" who dug and blasted into the earth's crust, sometimes shedding their lives along the way of creating the subway's tunnels. Doug Most chronicles the knowledge of the subway, talks about fears people had about traveling underground and tells a tale as thrilling as any ever before ripped from the web pages of U.S. history. The Race Underground is a superb American saga of two rival American cities, the powerful passions within, and an technology that modified the lives of hundreds of thousands.
