Jill Jonnes

Eiffels Tower (2000)

An enjoyable book. It is written in what seems to be a popular approach, that is having several different parallel story lines running at the same time in order to give a more complete, or at least a broader perspective of the main story or subject of the book. The method also serves to set the...

Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count (2009)

Pick this up in the airport in NY on the way to Spain and France. Easy read with lots of interwoven facts.The organizers of the 1889 Paris world's fair wanted to build some towering monument to be the centerpiece of their exposition. Many structures were submitted including a giant guillotine but...

Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels (2007)