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Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...scope of McCullough's book is enormous: he illuminates the arenas of politics, finances, science, engineering and sociology. He moves through his subject like one of those 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovels that gnawed their way across Panama. Facts are turned up by the cubic yard, sorted and arranged into a smooth, efficient narrative. Statistics sometimes tend to overwhelm the reader, but there are moments when numbers become all too human. Said one West Indian laborer about the frequent dynamite accidents: "The flesh of men flew in the air like birds many days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Ditch in Time | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...clearly incomprehensible: the canal was completed six months ahead of schedule and below the estimated cost. This massive excavation of the past brims with such evidence of how far we have progressed-and regressed-in six decades. As he so skillfully did in his book about the Brooklyn Bridge, McCullough seldom fails to make the reader feel like a sidewalk superintendent of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Ditch in Time | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

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