The great bridge : the epic story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
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The great bridge : the epic story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Simon & Schuster, 2012
- : hardcover
Available at 1 libraries
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Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1972, reprinted with new preface by the author
"The 40th anniversary edition"--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-578) and index
Contents of Works
- Part one. The Plan
- Man of Iron
- The Genuine Language of America
- Father and Son
- Brooklyn
- The Proper Person to See
- The Chief Engineer
- Part two. All According to Plan
- Down in the Caisson
- Fire
- The Past Catches Up
- How Natural, Right, and Proper
- The Mysterious Disorder
- The Heroic Mode
- Part three. At the Halfway Mark
- Spirits of 76
- A Perfect Pandemonium
- Number 8, Birmingham Gauge
- The Gigantic Spinning Machine
- Wire Fraud
- Emily
- The Man in the Window
- And Yet the Bridge Is Beautiful
- The People's Day
- Epilogue
- Appendix
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Forty years after its original publication, David McCullough's masterful history of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge has become a classic work and is now being reissued with a new preface from the author. The building of the Brooklyn Bridge was a time of optimism and corruption, a time when Americans were the world's greatest engineers and could collectively create a civic -- and national -- monument of supreme distinction. The experience offers lessons to us today, which McCullough will emphasize in his new preface.
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