The Los Angeles Railway's Yellow Cars, a system cobbled together from numerous horse-powered lines, cable car lines, and upstart narrow-gauge trolley companies, served downtown and its environs in some iteration from 1898 to 1963. Henry Huntington assembled this conglomerate, making it functionally effective and well patronized.

At the peak of his career, Dan Hurley, powerful Chicago politician, master of clout, discovers a conscience, wises up, and comes to regret his life's work running and profiting from a political machine he has come to despise. But he has a plan. Far from the city, on a hill in the country where coyotes howl, he hatches a rebellion to throw a wrench into the machine and salvage his reputation, his son's respect, and what is left of his life. But is it too late? As Dan Hurley discovers, there...

« Nous sommes relevés par le 65e, des Bretons qui, avec vingt-cinq kilomètres dans les jambes et douze heures sac au dos sans arrêt, ne se plaignent pas et s’entassent sans un mot dans les abris. C’est une race plus sympathique que nos Méridionaux du 16e corps, à qui la division était rattachée. » Par ces quelques mots griffonnés dans ses carnets en décembre 1915, le Bourguignon Pierre Perrin, mobilisé dans un régiment dijonnais, dit bien la force des stéréotypes régionaux dans la France d...