Great Bridge The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

Name: Great Bridge The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
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ISBN: 9781451683233

ISBN-10: 1451683235

ISBN-13: 9781451683233

Edition: 40th 2012

Authors: David McCullough

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Published on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book contains a new preface by David McCullough, “one of our most gifted living writers” (The Washington Post).Built to join the rapidly expanding cities of New York and Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Bridge was thought by many at the start to be an impossibility destined to fail if not from insurmountable technical problems then from political corruption. (It was the heyday of Boss Tweed in New York.) But the Brooklyn Bridge was at once the greatest engineering triumph of the age, a surpassing work of art, a proud American icon, and a story like no other in our history. Courage, chicanery,…

Book details

List price: $54.00
Edition: 40th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 2.420
Language: English

David McCullough is a writer, historian, lecturer, & teacher. He has received the Pulitzer Prize for "Truman", as well as the Francis Parkman Prize, & the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award. He is also a two-time winner of the National Book Award, for history & for biography. He lives in Massachusetts.



Preface to the Anniversary Edition


Acknowledgments






The Plan



Man of Iron



The Genuine Language of America



Father and Son



Brooklyn



The Proper Person to See



The Chief Engineer






All According to Plan



Down in the Caisson



Fire



The Past Catches Up



How Natural, Right, and Proper



The Mysterious Disorder



The Heroic Mode






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


Notes


Picture Credits


Bibliography


Index