Reviews for Chronology of Transportation in the United States

The average rating for Chronology of Transportation in the United States based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-03-13 00:00:00 Jose Villarreal I found this used from the Jefferson County Public Library in Colorado. Thomas Garrett is perhaps the greatest Wilmingtonian ever, a fearless Quaker station master on the underground railroad and colleague of Harriet Tubman, but it has been hard to find out much about him. This county, which recently re-segregated its schools probably would just as soon forget him. I would have liked to have seen a movie about him starring James Gandolfini. This book probably contains everything that there is to know about the man. And, I learned a lot more - Wilmington was originally called Willington (this is such a surprise to me that I wonder if it is true), the streets in Wilmington were hilly and were re-graded every few years in the early 19th century so that your house might have its front step below or well above street level, a probable origin for the expression underground railroad, that my home is along a principle route of the UGRR to Kennett, PA., that the local paper was called the "Blue Hen's Chicken" and the word "Journalisticator" for which I can find no definition (I assume some kind of typographical error).

Review # 2 was written on 2012-03-13 00:00:00 Thomais Johnston I didn't intend to read the whole thing, but I have a weakness for encyclopedias. There are times I regretted reading it, because the author is a Fan and a Snooty Fan at that. He's at his best when he's laying out interesting bits of television and movie history, but his worst moments of "this author is going to express this close-minded fanboy opinion several times in a row" are pretty bad. What fascinates me about this kind of overview is how much television production and writing have changed over several decades. There is a clear progression from the TV movie pilots and episodic series of the seventies to the serialized dramas of the last decade, and it's fun tracing the evolution of the writers, producers, and directors that made it happen.