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Transcripts For CSPAN3 How A Train Station Transformed America 20150830

Might have. When i began this book and met with my colleagues at Grand Central publishing we came up with the title, Grand Central how a train station transformed america. Then i went home and said did it . That is an ambitious agenda to have to live up to. I realized that it easily did that. The more i researched the book, the more i realized this was a transformative place. Stop and think if you go anywhere in the world and say this place is like Grand Central station, Everybody Knows what you are talking about. It is a metaphor for frenzy, chaos, people recognize it all over. Grand central has been the side of ransom demands, homecomings, hope filled send offs, the target of nazi saboteurs, terrorist bombs. Passengers have included president s, kids left for summer ....

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