Welcome to my Recommended Reading Page

If you are looking for some interesting as well as informative reading, then take a look at some of these books:

Railroads and Transportation

• Getting There: The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century by Stephen B. Goddard

• Fairy Tale Railroad: The Mohawk and Malone. From the Mohawk, through the Adirondacks, to the St. Lawrence by Henry A. Harter

• Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force by Albro Martin

• Super Trains: Solutions to America's Transportation Gridlock by Joseph Vranich

America's Civilization

• Reason to Believe by Mario Cuomo

• The Great Crash: 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith

• High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York by Mark Goldman

• Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America by Henry Kisor

• The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler

• A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb by Philip Langdon

• Last Train to Toronto: A Canadian Rail Odyssey by Terry Pindell (not American civilization, but it makes you reflect on it.)

• Making Tracks: An American Rail Odyssey by Terry Pindell

• A Good Place to Live: America's Last Migration by Terry Pindell

History

• The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government by James A. Morone

  The Crisis of the Old Order by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

More books will be added as I find ones that I think should be included. If you would like more information about the book, just send me some e-mail