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New Book & Author Interview today - "Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America"
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Actually, in reading all the excerpts and listening to the interview, it seems to me that the author has a grievance, but he is not very forthright in coming out and saying what it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It kind of comes across as one hand clapping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He finds fault with the lack of a standard gage, and then he finds fault with the gage chosen to be standard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His tone makes it sound like he views these issues to be mistakes, but he does not say what should have been done to avoid making those mistakes. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have read much discussion about the gage wars and the authors were able to discuss them objectively including the cause and the effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, I have no idea what Richard White is really getting at when he mentions the gage problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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