A distinguished military historian’s 40-year quest to plumb our essential mystery: the “secret of a way of life different from any other lived on Earth”
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“GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS,” wrote Robert Frost. But he may have been closer to the mark with another line: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.”
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An overheard remark sent the author off on a years-long quest to discover the truth about a man whose power to inspire both rage and reverence has only grown after his death.
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They are 30 years gone from our main lines, but, all across the country, steam locomotives are pulling trainloads of passengers into the past. A lifelong student of the great age of American railroad reveals some of the most impressive.
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People visit the Grand Canyon for scenery, not architecture. But an assortment of buildings there, infused with history and the sensibility of one strong woman, are worth a long look.
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