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Index
Cover
Praise
PREVIOUS BOOKS BY PETER L. BERNSTEIN
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright
Epigraph
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Does It Not Seem Like Magic?”
PART I: THE VISIONARIES
1 Smooth Sailing
2 Hudson’s Wrong Turn
3 Washington’s Pivot
4 Canal Maniacs
5 “A Canal to the Moon”
PART II: THE ACTION BEGINS
6 The Sublime Spectacle
7 The Extravagant Proposal
8 The Expedition
9 War and Peace
10 The Shower of Gold
PART III: THE CREATION
11 Digging the Ditch
12 Boom, Bust, Bonds
13 Rude Invective
14 Unwearied Zeal
PART IV: THE STUPENDOUS PATH
15 A Noble Work
16 The Pageant of Power
17 The Wedding of the Waters
PART V: AFTER THE WEDDING
18 No Charge for Births
19 The Prodigious Artery
20 The Granary of the World
EPILOGUE
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
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