Stephen E. Ambrose "Nothing Like It In The World" Signed First Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition of 1,650 w/COA [Sealed]

Personally signed by Stephen E. Ambrose 

Signed First Edition , Limited to only 1,650 Signed & Numbered Copies

Easton Press, Norwalk, CT. 2000. Stephen E. Ambrose "Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869" Signed First Edition. Limited Edition. Full genuine leather. No dust-jacket as issued. Personally signed by Stephen Ambrose directly onto the special limitation page. One of only 1,650 signed and numbered copies. SIGNED FIRST EDITION as stated on the spine of the book. Includes the original COA , Certificate of Authenticity by the publisher. Sealed.

Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad—the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks.

The U.S. government pitted two companies—the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads—against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomotives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes vibrantly to life.

About the author

Stephen E. Ambrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than thirty books. Among his New York Times bestsellers are Nothing Like It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. Dr. Ambrose was a retired Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and a contributing editor for the Quarterly Journal of Military History.

Reviews

Richly readable...[Stephen Ambrose] bears the reader on shoulders of wonder and excitement. -- Henry Kisor ― The New York Times Book Review

This magnificent tale of high finance, low finagling, and workers hacking through 2,000 miles is magnificently told. -- Time, naming Nothing Like It in the World as the #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year

Climb aboard...this lively tale, a colorful, edifying story of U.S. history....Ambrose is the bard of American accomplishment. -- Conn Nugent ― New York Post

Stephen Ambrose has done it again....Ambrose should be read as much for his muscular prose and talent to get at the heart of the matter as for his research. -- Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today Historian