SOURCE: “Railroaded History,” in Washington Post Book World, September 18, 2000, p. C3.
In the following review of Nothing Like It in the World, Limerick criticizes Ambrose's uncritical generalizations about the American transcontinental railroad and his sentimental view of its construction.
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