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McCullough, David G.
The great bridge :
the epic story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge /
David McCullough.
40th anniversary ed., hardcover ed.
New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2012.
605 p., [32] p. of plates :
ill., map ;
25 cm.
Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1972; reprinted with new preface by the author.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-578) and index.
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 -- Picture Section -- 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 -- Picture Section -- Wire Fraud -- Emily -- The Man in the Window -- And Yet the Bridge Is Beautiful -- The People's Day -- Epilogue -- Appendix.
20130826.
Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
History.
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