Biography of Peter L. Bernstein

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Peter L. Bernstein was a teacher, economist, and a historian who grew to be one of America’s best known writers in promoting his perceptive of economics to the public. Bernstein graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in economics. He was the author of ten books in economics and finance in addition to numerous articles in professional journals. Including his bestseller Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. His other books include A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold and The Price of Prosperity.
Bernstein tells how the canal's creation helped prevent the dismemberment of the American empire and knit the sinews of the American industrial revolution. He expresses how even the least important individuals who helped construct the Erie Canal, are as important as the most beneficial individual. Wedding of the Waters proclaims that all growth in the economy and the public can all be brought back to the great beginning of engineering; the Erie Canal.

Bernstein tells of a great American accomplishment and how it not only transformed the landscape of the economy but the political & social landscape as well. He investigates the economic, political, and social struggles that workers had to go through to put the Canal up to its true potential. This includes conflicts with finances and other leaders who thought this project could never become a great triumph. In the 1800s, people soon realized that the Appalachian Mountains were a restriction in uniting the Atlantic states with the lands of the west. The leaders of this great nation came up with the plan to construct the massive Erie Canal and unite the western lands and the Atlantic states. Bernstein talks about how many people tried to do things like this in...

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...s I thought it would be. Personally, I am not that into history and the making of the Erie Canal. But this book made me think more about how it really started a lot of other events and without these events, America would not be at all of what it is today. It has changed my perception of little constructions that are really what made America to be what it is today. I also liked how the book was about something that was local to my town. I would rather like to learn about something more local than something somewhere I am never going to visit. I would recommend this book to the people who like a good history story. To the people who want to know more on their local history and how much it has impacted American life. If an individual gives this book a chance, they might find something unique that they like about the amazing story of how the Erie Canal was fabricated.

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