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Title: Excellent History
Review: I really enjoyed the breadth of this book. It ranges smoothly over political history, engineering, medicine, and finance. You come away with the feeling that you understand something about the people who built (and earlier failed to build) the canal. The discussion of alternate canal routes was also interesting. Maybe this book should get five stars, but I'm going to subtract one because sometimes there was just too much detail so things got a little slow. Of course not everyone will agree on that.
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