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The men who united the States

Simon Winchester · 初版 2013 年

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备受好评的《纽约时报》畅销书作家 Winchester 深入描绘了那些从美国建国伊始就无畏劳作、探寻、连结并凝聚美国国民与疆土的人物，并探讨了将合众国团结起来的这一历史性工程是否取得成功，以及达到了何种程度。

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dredmorbius · 2016 年
强烈推荐：Simon Winchester 写的《The Men Who United the States》。涵盖的远不止道路，虽然道路也包括在内。令人震撼的是，你这才意识到大多数现代美国交通基础设施竟然这么新。州际公路系统直到……才开始动工
Strongly recommended: The Men Who United the States, by Simon Winchester. Covers more than just roads, though that's included. What's impressive is to realise how recent most modern US travel infrastructure is. The Interstate Highway System wasn't begun…
msisk6 · 2016 年
Simon Winchester 的书我都推荐。他写的非虚构类作品很有趣，而且有声书都是他自己朗读的。就在今天早上开车上班的路上，我刚听完《The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible》。在那之前听的是《Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators,…
I'd recommend anything by Simon Winchester. He writes interesting non-fiction books and reads them for the audio versions. Just this morning on my drive into work I finished "The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible". Before that was "Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators,…
dredmorbius · 2017 年
……运河、铁路、邮路、邮局、图书馆、学校、公立大学、航空业、公路系统以及公管港口，都会浮现在脑海中。Simon Winchester 的《The Men Who United the States》探讨了其中的许多要素，尽管主要不是从经济学视角出发的。要记住，跨大陆或洲际旅行能在数小时内完成、而不是……的想法
…of canals, railroads, postal roads, post offices, libraries, schools, public universities, the aviation industry, highway systems, and publicly-managed ports, all come to mind. Simon Winchester's The Men Who United the States addresses many of these elements, though not from a principally economic perspective. Keep in mind that the notion of trans-continental or inter-continental travel occurring within hours rather than…

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