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Rising Tides and Tailwinds

The Story of the Port of Seattle

By Casey McNerthney, Kit Oldham, and Peter Blecha. With a new foreword by Senator Patty Murray and a new afterword by Stephen P. Metruck and Lance Lyttle

A century ago, Seattle was held hostage by its own waterfront. Competing railroad companies built a chaotic sprawl of rail lines, docks, and warehouses along the shoreline of Elliott Bay, creating conditions so bad that...