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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Sprache
Verlagsort
Editions-Typ
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Pappband
mit Schutzumschlag
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 252 mm
Breite: 174 mm
Dicke: 46 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-4516-8323-3 (9781451683233)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
David McCullough is the author of several highly acclaimed works of biography and history including TRUMAN (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993), BRAVE COMPANIONS, THE GREAT BRIDGE and THE JONESTOWN FLOOD. He has also won the LOS ANGELES TIMES Book Award and is twice winner of the National Book Award.
Contents
Introduction
Author's Note
PART ONE
1. The Plan
2. Man of Iron
3. The Genuine Language of America
4. Father and Son
5. Brooklyn
6. The Proper Person to See
7. The Chief Engineer
PART TWO
8. All According to Plan
9. Down in the Caisson
10. Fire
11. The Past Catches Up
12. How Natural, Right, and Proper
13. The Mysterious Disorder
14. The Heroic Mode
PART THREE
15. At the Halfway Mark
16. Spirits of '76
17. A Perfect Pandemonium
18. Number 8, Birmingham Gauge
19. The Gigantic Spinning Machine
20. Wire Fraud
21. Emily
22. The Man in the Window
23. And Yet the Bridge Is Beautiful
24. The People's Day
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Picture Credits
Bibliography
Index
