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The Great Bridge

The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
By David McCullough
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The Great Bridge by David McCullough recounts the captivating history of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, a monumental feat of engineering completed in a period marked by optimism and corruption. The narrative explores how 19th-century American engineers overcame tremendous challenges to create a landmark that symbolised civic pride and national achievement.
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The classic story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge with a new preface to mark the 40th anniversary of publication.

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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 β€” and national β€” monument of supreme distinction.

The experience offers lessons to us today, which McCullough will emphasise in his new preface.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781451683233

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 May 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: Simon & Schuster

Edition: Anniversary ed

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 560

Collections

American & Canadian History David McCullough Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

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.

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