CONTENTS

Dedication

Epigraph

 

List of Maps and Illustrations

Author’s Note

Preface: The Pure Physics of Union

PART I: When America’s Story Was Dominated by Wood, 1785–1805

PART II: When America’s Story Went beneath the Earth, 1809–1901

PART III: When the American Story Traveled by Water, 1803–1900

PART IV: When the American Story Was Fanned by Fire, 1811–1956

PART V: When the American Story Was Told through Metal, 1835–Tomorrow

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

 

About the Author

Also by Simon Winchester

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher