Wedding of the Waters by Bernstein, Peter L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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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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