Wedding Of The Waters: The Erie Canal & the Making Of A Great Nation
2005 · New York
by Bernstein, Peter
New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. VG+/VG+. Gardcover with illustrated dustjacket. 448 pp. with numerous bw plates. This book examines the social ramifications, political squabble and economic risks/returns of the ambitious proposal to cut a waterway between Lake Erie and the Hudson River so that the Atlantic colonies could gain access to the midwest. Buy this book from a living, breathing bookseller! (Inventory #: 100638)