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Title: Another excellent book by McCullough
Review: This is a review of the audio CD version of book. David McCullough does an excellent job of illuminating the history of early French efforts to build the canal and the later successful effort to do so by the Americans, and the incredible loss of human life that accompanied all of these efforts. McCullough also exposes the financial and political machinations that were at work prior to and during the canal-building years. McCullough's discussion of those machinations left me bored the first time I listened to the audiobook, but I found them much more interesting on subsequent listenings. The audio recording is excellent, as it always is with David McCullough's audiobooks. The only downside of the audiobook version is that it lacks the 80 photographs and 2 maps that are in the print edition.
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