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Author McCullough, David G.

Title The great bridge / David McCullough.

Publication Info. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1982.
©1972

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  624.2 MCCULLOUGH    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  624.5 MCC    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  624.55 MCC    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  624.55 MCCULLOUGH    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  624.55 MCCULLOUGH    Check Shelf
Edition First Touchstone edition.
Description 636 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series A Touchstone book
Note Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1972.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 603-612.
Note Includes index.
Summary A detailed account of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge providing background on its engineering history as well as the political and social climate of the late-nineteenth century.
Contents The Plan -- Man of Iron -- The Genuine Language of America -- Father and Son -- Brooklyn -- The Proper Person to See -- The Chief Engineer -- All According to Plan -- Down in the Caisson -- Fire -- The Past Catches Up -- How Natural, Right, and Proper -- The Mysterious Disorder -- The Heroic Mode -- At the Halfway Mark -- Spirits of '76 -- A Perfect Pandemonium -- Number 8, Birmingham Gauge -- The Gigantic Spinning Machine -- Wire Fraud -- Emily -- The Man in the Window -- And Yet the Bridge Is Beautiful -- The People's Day.
Subject Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN 067145711X paperback
9780671457112 paperback
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