Mises Daily
Author:
Clifford F. Thies
Online Publish Date:
A review of Stephen E. Ambrose, Nothing Like It in the World. The Men who built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Ambrose is an accomplished military and presidential historian, best known for his books on Dwight D. Eisenhower and the American GI during WWII. He wrote this book on a piece of railroad