Peter L . Bernstein
Wedding of the Waters
The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
"One corner of the great American
panorama enlarged to highlight starryeyed
visionaries, political machinations,
indefatigable ingenuity, and cockeyed
optimism."
—Kirkus Reviews
A SWEEPING WORK of history by Peter L. Bernstein,
Wedding of the Waters recounts the revolutionary
conception, construction, and completion of the Erie
Canal, one of the greatest engineering projects ever
undertaken and the crucial link between the Atlantic
states and the bounties of the western lands beyond
the Appalachian Mountains. This stupendous project
was a daunting challenge at every turn, for the financiers
and politicians as well as the would-be engineers.
With its emphasis on technological ingenuity, global
economics, financial skills, and America's changing
role in the world, Wedding of the Waters is a story for our
own times.
"Bernstein resists the temptation to say . . . that the
Erie canal ‘changed the world,' but it did. It is almost
impossible to imagine what the country would be like
had it not been built. Peter Bernstein does it full justice."—
Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
PETER L. BERNSTEIN's nine books include
the worldwide bestseller Against the Gods: The
Remarkable Story of Risk. Bernstein is also an
economic consultant and publisher of Economics
and Portfolio Strategy, a semimonthly letter
for institutional investors.
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