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Panama Fever.(Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time; The Building of the Panama Canal )(Brief article)(Book review)
This history of the Panama Canal describes the scheming, the speculating, and the backbreaking labor--performed mostly by West Indians, who bore the brunt of the estimated twenty-five thousand fatalities--that went into "the costliest project ever yet attempted." Construction began in 1880, as a privately financed French enterprise, and was completed by the United States, in 1914. (Theodore Roosevelt called in the Army to finish the job.) Parker offers a ...
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