Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid, lively exposition, McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and captivating tale.Winner of the National Book Award for history, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the Cornelius Ryan Award (for the best book of the year on international affairs),The Path Between the Seasis a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the history of technology, international intrigue, and human drama.
It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. InThe Path Between the Seas,acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise.The Path Between the Seastells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofTruman,here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal.The dust jacket is not price-clipped chipped and edgeworn a half-inch closed tear to the bottom of the front panel Brodart protected. The book has Crouse's bookplate on the inside front board, else unmarked spine slant corners and spine ends bumped with some wear a small BCE imprint mark on the back board. Laid in are a black-and-white photo of Crouse with McCullough and wife in the summer of 1981 a copy of an article in the Call by Crouse about McCullough and a typed and signed letter (with envelope) from McCullough to Crouse, thanking Crouse for his review of The Path Between the Seas.
Inscriptee William Crouse was a longtime writer and managing editor for The Woonsocket (R.I.) Call, where he was a Pulitzer Prize nominee. Crouse-with greetings and all best wishes / David McCullough / West Tisbury, Massachusetts / August 6, 1978." The eminent popular historian McCullough (1933-2022) won Pulitzer Prizes for Truman and John Adams. A Book Club edition, inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper: "for W.
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