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Title: Informative and Enjoyable
Review: I found the part about the Ferdinand de Lesseps failings not to my interest and skipped it. I enjoyed reading about the lobbying of Congress, the congressional hearings, Teddy Roosevelt's "maneuvers" including the United States support of the coup d'etat taking Panama away from Columbia,, the construction of the Canal, the conquering or mitigating the various diseases (yellow fever, malaria, bubonic plague, small pox, typhoid fever, pneumonia, cholera, etc.) by Dr. Gorgas, the Jim Crowism in the Canal Zone during construction (Julie Greene has written an entire book on this), and the every day life of living in the Canal Zone during construction.David McCullough writes well. I have a feeling he is a helluva nice man.
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