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The Last Three Miles
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Author : Steven Hart
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2012-10-23
The Last Three Miles written by Steven Hart and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with Political Science categories.
An investigative history of Depression Era power brokers and labor wars in the construction of the Pulaski Skyway across the New Jersey Meadowlands. In the 1930s, as America’s love affair with the automobile began, cars and trucks leaving the nation’s largest city were dumped out of the Holland Tunnel onto local roads winding through New Jersey swampland. The Pulaski Skyway, America’s first “superhighway,” would change all that by connecting the hub of New York City to the rest of the country. But the corrupt and violent path to its completion would change much more for Jersey City’s residents and labor unions. Jersey City mayor Frank Hague—dictator of the Hudson County political machine and a national political player—was a prime mover behind the ambitious transit project. Hague’s nemesis in this undertaking was union boss Teddy Brandle. Construction of the last three miles of the Pulaski Skyway, then simply known as Route 25, marked an epic battle between big labor and big politics, culminating in a murder and the creation of a motorway so flawed it soon became known as “Death Avenue”—appropriately featured in the opening sequence of HBO’s hit series The Sopranos. A book in the tradition of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker and Henry Petroski’s Engineers of Dreams, The Last Three Miles brings to vivid life a riveting and bloodstained chapter in the heroic age of public works. “A revealing look into how local politics can affect the design and construction of our national infrastructure, sometimes with disastrous results. Hart uses his considerable narrative talent to tell an engaging human story about what might seem otherwise to be but an enormous black steel structure.” —Henry Petroski, author of Engineers of Dreams and Success Through Failure
Last Three Miles
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Author : Steven Hart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-11
Last Three Miles written by Steven Hart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with categories.
The 1927 opening of the Holland Tunnel meant that a flood of cars and trucks leaving Manhattan bound for points west were dumped into the streets of Jersey City and the Meadowlands. The answer was to create America¿s first superhighway connecting New York with the U.S. The $40 million project had the backing of Frank Hague, one of the most powerful political bosses of his day, and by 1930 all but the last three miles had been built. Completing that final link, now known as the Pulaski Skyway, touched off a labor war that pitted Hague against the powerful union boss Teddy Brandle, and led to a sensational murder trial. When the Skyway was opened in 1932, however, its design proved so badly flawed that newspapers called it ¿Death Avenue.¿
Three Miles Past
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Author : Stephen Graham Jones
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2024-10-22
Three Miles Past written by Stephen Graham Jones and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-22 with Fiction categories.
From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Indian Lake trilogy: Three stories that uncover what’s lurking just beyond your headlights . . . Take a road trip into your darkest nightmares with three stories from the modern master of horror and “one of the best writers working today” (NPR). Here, Bram Stoker Award–winning author Stephen Graham Jones gives evil an all-too-familiar face, whether it’s the man from the dog shelter, a colleague at a work convention, or even just your phone. Horror can reach you everywhere and when you least expect it . . . In “Interstate Love Affair,” a serial killer’s unique way of disposing of his victims’ bodies gives roadkill an even more gruesome meaning. “No Takebacks” tracks how an app goes from an idea to coding to letting loose its creator’s darkest impulses. And there’s nowhere to hide during “The Coming of Night,” when a predator’s latest kill sets off a creepy-crawly timebomb inside of him. Buckle up for page-turning scares from “a genuine horror superstar” (Esquire).
The Last Miles
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Author : George Cole
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2007-07-17
The Last Miles written by George Cole and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The story of the final recordings of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century
Three Miles Down
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Author : James Hamilton-Paterson
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-11-20
Three Miles Down written by James Hamilton-Paterson and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-20 with Shipwrecks categories.
James Hamilton-Paterson describes Three Miles Down (first published in 1998) as 'the account of a treasure hunt in 1995 which I joined as the expedition's chronicler. A group of Britons had chartered the Russian oceanographic ship, the Mstislav Keldysh, to look for the wrecks of two vessels sunk in the Atlantic in the Second World War... Both were alleged to be carrying cargoes of gold.' For the author the experience was to bring home all 'the emotions and practical technicalities of the search phase of marine salvage.' '[Hamilton-Paterson's] unfolding of the story and his deft sketching of some unusual personalities grips like the skinny hand of the Ancient Mariner.' Scotsman 'He proves to be a chronicler of the intrigue among a crew of strangers, a fount of lore about wrecks and deep-sea exploration, and a marvellous witness to the lightless wonders of profound depths.' Outside
The Last Three Soldiers
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Author : William Henry Shelton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-14
The Last Three Soldiers written by William Henry Shelton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-14 with categories.
Reproduction of the original: The Last Three Soldiers by William Henry Shelton
Three Miles Down
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Author : Harry Turtledove
language : en
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date : 2022-07-26
Three Miles Down written by Harry Turtledove and has been published by Tor Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-26 with Fiction categories.
From New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, the modern master of alternate history, a novel of alien contact set in the tumultuous year of the Watergate scandal. It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology at UCLA with a side gig selling short stories to science fiction magazines, just weeks away from marrying his longtime fiancée. Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter agencies who want him to join a top-secret "Project Azorian" in the middle of the north Pacific Ocean—and they really don't take "no" for an answer. Further, they're offering enough money to solve all of his immediate problems. Joining up and swearing to secrecy, what he first learns is that Project Azorian is secretly trying to raise a sunken Russian submarine, while pretending to be harvesting undersea manganese nodules. But the dead Russian sub, while real, turns out to be a cover story as well. What's down on the ocean floor next to it is the thing that killed the sub: an alien spacecraft. Jerry's a scientist, a longhair, a storyteller, a dreamer. He stands out like a sore thumb on the Glomar Explorer, a ship full of CIA operatives, RAND Corporation eggheads, and roustabout divers. But it turns out that he's the one person in the North Pacific who's truly thought out all the ways that human-alien first contact might go. And meanwhile, it's still 1974 back on the mainland. Richard Nixon is drinking heavily and talking to the paintings on the White House walls. The USA is changing fast—and who knows what will happen when this story gets out? Three Miles Down is both a fresh and original take on First Contact, and a hugely enjoyable romp through the pop culture, political tumult, and conspiracies-within-conspiracies atmosphere that was 1974. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Want Not
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Author : Jonathan Miles
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Want Not written by Jonathan Miles and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Fiction categories.
A “shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating” novel about the things we desire and the things we throw away (Entertainment Weekly). A New York Times Notable Book A highly inventive, corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair—a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father’s losing battle with Alzheimer’s; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included. Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. “Its pleasures are endless."—Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End “Terrific…The novel may begin with prickly satire, it may dig deep into America’s disposable lifestyle, but it ultimately pivots to scenes of surprising tenderness…a novel to hoard.”—The Washington Post “Leaps nimbly from topic to topic…from freeganism to conspicuous consumption; from Manhattan's Alphabet City to residential New Jersey to the backwoods of Tennessee; and from neighbors with nothing but geographical location in common to sisters who share nothing but blood….Sitting down with Want Not is like finding yourself opposite the most interesting person at a dinner party. It pulls you in immediately; makes you shake your head in wonder and delight at your new companion's wit, originality, and compelling turns of phrase; and, best of all, surprises you into laughter.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “For readers who relish extravagant language, scathing wit and philosophical heft, Want Not wastes nothing.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Annual Report
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Author : New South Wales. Department of Mines
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
Annual Report written by New South Wales. Department of Mines and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with categories.
A Hand Book For Travellers In Ireland
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Author : James Fraser (of Dublin.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1844
A Hand Book For Travellers In Ireland written by James Fraser (of Dublin.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1844 with categories.