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Read "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood last week, now re-reading "The Hiding Place" By Corrie Ten Boom. An interesting juxtaposition.

Edit: Here's a picture of a book for continuity's sake.

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Tim Green is a former 1st round NFL draft pick by the Atlanta Falcons. He is now a Lawyer, NY Times Best Selling Author, Television Host, HS football coach. This is the first book of his I am reading.



 
In progress, almost done (myself, slow reading). 700 pages! I like non-fiction history books. Don't like fiction books.

The book will absorb you ... You won't want to put it down once you've started reading it. --The New York Daily News
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  • "David McCullough's history of this extraordinary construction job between the Atlantic and Pacific is everything history ought to be. It is dramatic, accurate...and altogether gripping." --The Washington Star
  • "Solid, entertainingly written and fair-minded ... McCullough unravels the complicated and sometimes deliberately obscured story that lies behind the Panama Canal."—The Washington Post Book World
  • "A chunk of history full of giant-sized characters and rich in political skullduggery."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
  • "In the hands of McCullough, the digging of the great ditch becomes a kind of peacetime epic ... The book will absorb you ... You won't want to put it down once you've started reading it." --The New York Daily News
  • "McCullough is a storyteller with the capacity to steer readers through political, financial, and engineering intricacies without fatigue or muddle. This is grand-scale, expert work." --Newsweek

Amazing and mind-boggling work. Even today. The Great Pyramid of Giza was a piece of cake compared to Panama canal project. Fighting with diseases i.e. malaria and yellow fever, difficult engineering, hot and monsoon climate, mountains and jungles digging, landslides, thousands of deaths, political corruption including bribery, kickbacks and embezzlement (common today), labor, etc.

I will plan the second Panama canal trip.

 
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