The Great Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

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The Great Bridge
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The Great Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

  • 5.0 (3 ratings) ·
  • 32 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read

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, unprecedented ingenuity and plain blundering, heroes, rascals, all the best and worst in human nature played a part. At the center of the drama were the stricken chief engineer, Washington Roebling and his remarkable wife, Emily Warren Roebling, neither of whom ever gave up in the face of one heartbreaking setback after another.
The Great Bridge is a sweeping narrative of a stupendous American achievement that rose up out of its era like a cathedral, a symbol of affirmation then and still in our time.

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Cover of: The great bridge
The great bridge: the epic story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
2001, Simon & Schuster
in English
Cover of: The great bridge
The great bridge
1982, Simon and Schuster
in English - 1st Touchstone ed.
Cover of: The Great Bridge.
The Great Bridge.
1976, Avon
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Cover of: The Great Bridge
The Great Bridge: Brooklyn Bridge
January 1972, Books On Tape
Audio Cassette in English
Cover of: The Great Bridge
The Great Bridge
1972, Simon and Schuster
in English

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OL12580728M
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5557095888
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9785557095884
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