Title: A Great Achievement
Product review: Mr. Bain said he spent 14 years working on this book, and it shows in his detailed portrayal of the characters, the land and the times that brought forth this engineering, construction and financing marvel of its day. Some great reviews have been written here, so I won't add a multitude of words. Suffice it to say that apparently I am alone in wishing that the financing mechanisms, the impacts of interest rate fluctuations, the subsidies, the costs of supplies and labor and the ultimate profits had been presented in a little more detail. This project was, after all, depending on how you view it, either a great triumph or a gross abuse of capitalism in the gilded age. It is fundamentally a business story, and yet relatively little detail is provided about the flow of money -- other than to politicians. Still, it is a wonderful book well worth reading.
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