# The National Dream

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- Book: [The National Dream](https://www.bookquiver.com/pierre-berton/the-national-dream) ([The National Dream.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/pierre-berton/the-national-dream.md))
- Authors: [Pierre Berton](https://www.bookquiver.com/pierre-berton)
- Publisher: anchor_canada
- ISBN: 978-03-8565-840-9
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2001-08-14
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old—it's population well below the 4 million mark—determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored....