Bøger af Andrew R. Black

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) achieved a multidimensional career as a successful novelist, historian, and politician. According to biographer Andrew Black, scholars from various fields have never completely captured this broadly talented antebellum figure.

The Hoosac railroad tunnel in northwestern Massachusetts was a nineteenth-century engineering and construction marvel on a par with the Brooklyn Bridge. Its story, however, is far less well-known. This book explains how a plan of such magnitude and cost came to be in the first place and what forces sustained it to completion.