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The Great Bridge
The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
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See moreThe 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 โ and national โ 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: 0g
Pages: 560
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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