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Booktv. Org. Doug most recounts the competition between boston and new york city, to build the nations first subway system during the late 19th century. This is a little under one hour. [applause] thank you. Thank you everyone for coming out on this lovely night. Ive done one of than earlier so far and the also was a slushy and lovely night. So maybe this is what you should expect Going Forward for things. It is also appropriate as i talk to people about this today, as i was thinking about this now, its appropriate that their snow around because as it turned out snow was a critical factor in the building of subways in this country. I will talk a little bit about that. Subways came to be in large part because of a storm much bigger than the one that we are experiencing today and a much more deadly one. I thought id do tonight is talked briefly about the question everyone has asked me, how did you come up with the idea for the book, ....
A when i move to boston it was an experience. And as i started looking for a book idea i started looking at the boston subway knowing it was a point in america. One of the things that was interesting as we looked into the history of that and i discovered i had written a true story behind how the subway came to be. But then i was interested when i discovered the same time boston was debating and digging the subway new york was doing the exact same thing. At the same time in the late 1800s both cities were completely overrun by immigrants who had flooded into the city in the second half of the 19th century and really had sort of overrun the cities in the cities were at the time sort of just fingernails of what they are today. Everybody was crammed into just a tiny portion of the city because that was as thou art far out is you could go. If you wanted to get from Downtown Boston to brooklyn it would take you two hours by horse and c ....
This is a little under one hour. Thanks everyone for coming out on this slushy, lovely night. I have done one event so far on this and it was also a sluggishly, lovely night so maybe its what i should expect Going Forward for things. Its appropriate, talking to people about this today as i was thinking about the snow come its appropriate theres snow on the ground because snow as it turned out was a critical factor in the building of subways in this country. Ill talk about that, but subways became to be in large part because of a storm much bigger than the one we are experiencing today and a much deadlier one. I thought what i would do tonight, a couple things. I thought i would talk briefly about the question asked when hit by the book is how did you come up with the idea for the book, a natural question you often hear. And ill talk about that and then im going to read a few passages. One thing about the book is its sort of toggle ....