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BUSH: I wouldn't say that. I admire a good thinker--particularly if they're practical. And I like to read a good book. I'm a history buff. I just finished Stephen Ambrose's book on building the transcontinental railroad...
Suddenly, Wilson's narrative jumps away from this unhappy family and back to 1941 Berlin, where an industrialist named Klaus Felsen is being persuaded, none too gently, to abandon his railroad-coupling factory and take on an important assignment for the Nazis. The Third Reich needs vast amounts of wolfram, i.e., tungsten, to use as an alloy in solid-core ammunition, essential for tank warfare, and the present supply from China will cease once Hitler breaks his nonaggression pact with Stalin. Portugal has wolfram, and Felsen speaks Portuguese, a memento from his past affair with a Brazilian woman. Ergo, Felsen...
...NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD Veteran historian Stephen Ambrose writes at full throttle about the construction of the transcontinental railroad during the 1860s. This magnificent tale of high finance, low finagling and workers hacking through 2,000 miles is magnificently told...
...face of the Republican Party. Having reached out to minorities during his campaign, Bush hopes to continue doing so with high-profile appointments to his Administration. Powell and Rice would be the two most highly placed African Americans ever in an Administration. Hispanic Congressman Henry Bonilla and Texas railroad commissioner Tony Garza are close to Bush and are under consideration for positions. With such a narrow electoral mandate and itty-bitty margins of power in the House and Senate, Bush knows that such appointments would help curry favor with constituencies, which could be crucial to legislative success...
Ceaselessly uttered, this hope was endlessly disappointed, but the allure of California never diminished (at least in the eyes of outsiders). Its early 20th century images are full of it, whether in a massive pair of strawberries, ca. 1910, on a railroad flatcar, a view of sublimely twisted eucalypts framing the far sky near Carmel, or in one of Gottardo Piazzoni's classical views that translates the sea pines of his ancestral Italy to the edge of the Pacific...