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Index
Cover
Other Books By This Author
About the Author
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface: The Battle to Build the Canal
Part 1 - THE GOLDEN ISTHMUS
Chapter 1 - “The Keys to the Universe”
Chapter 2 - Rivalry and Stalemate
Chapter 3 - Gold Rush
Chapter 4 - “A Natural Culminating Point”
Chapter 5 - The Competing Routes
Part 2 - THE FRENCH TRAGEDY
Chapter 6 - “Le Grand Français”
Chapter 7 - The Fatal Decision
Chapter 8 - The Riches of France
Chapter 9 - “Travail Commencé”
Chapter 10 - Fever
Chapter 11 - Jules Dingler
Chapter 12 - Annus Horribilis
Chapter 13 - Collapse and Scandal
Part 3 - THE AMERICAN TRIUMPH
Chapter 14 - Heroes and Villains—The “Battle of the Routes”
Chapter 15 - “I Took the Isthmus”
Chapter 16 - “Make the Dirt Fly”
Chapter 17 - Yellow Jack
Chapter 18 - Restart
Chapter 19 - The Railroad Era
Chapter 20 - The Digging Machine
Chapter 21 - Segregation
Chapter 22 - “The Army of Panama”
Chapter 23 - “Hell's Gorge”
Chapter 24 - “Lord How Piercing!”
Chapter 25 - The Land Divided, The World United
Postscript: Whose Canal Is It, Anyway?
Notes
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