David Haward Bain, Author . Viking $27.95 (434p) ISBN 978-0-670-03308-9
Bain plumbed the history of America's West in Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
, and he elegantly broadens his scope here by logging 7,000 miles from his home in Vermont to California with a wife and daughter who'd
READ FULL REVIEW
David Haward Bain, Author Viking Books $34.95 (797p) ISBN 978-0-670-80889-2
Uniting the country by a transcontinental railroad had a special resonance for the generation that had recently fought the Civil War. Bain's comprehensive study starts with the visionaries who conceived the idea during the two decades before the war
READ FULL REVIEW
David Haward Bain, Author, Mary Smyth Duffy, Editor Ecco Press $40 (378p) ISBN 978-0-88001-323-9
Sponsored by Middlebury College in Vermont, the annual two-week Bread Loaf Writer's Conference has attracted many of America's most prestigious authors, both as students and as faculty. Bain ( Aftershocks ) provides an interesting historical...
READ FULL REVIEW
