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100 1  Gray, Edward G.,|d1964-2023 
245 10 Tom Paine's iron bridge :|bbuilding a United States /
       |cEdward G. Gray. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c2016. 
300    xiv, 235 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-218) and 
       index. 
505 0  Author's note: On architects and engineers -- River city -
       - The hazards of competition -- Years of peril -- The 
       trials of the republic of Pennsylvania -- The Schuylkill 
       and its crossings -- The Schuylkill Permanent Bridge 
       Company -- The magical iron arch -- American architect -- 
       An architect and his patrons -- The great rupture -- The 
       specter of Paine -- Citizen Paine -- No nation of iron 
       bridges -- Epilogue -- A note on sources. 
520 2  "The little-known story of the architectural project that 
       lay at the heart of Paine's grand political vision for the
       United States. Thomas Jefferson praised Tom Paine as the 
       greatest political writer of the age. The author of 
       'Common Sense' and Rights of Man, Paine helped make 
       revolutions in America and France. But beyond his 
       inspiring calls to action, Paine harbored a deeper 
       political vision for his adopted country. It was embodied 
       in an architectural project that he spent decades planning
       : an iron bridge to span the Schuylkill River at 
       Philadelphia. The bridge was Paine's answer to the 
       political puzzle of the new nation: how to sustain a 
       republic as large and geographically fragmented as the 
       United States. Among its patrons were other giants of the 
       time, including Benjamin Franklin and Edmund Burke, 
       Paine's ideological opponent. Set against the background 
       of the American Revolution, the story of his iron bridge 
       reveals a new Tom Paine and connects this revolutionary to
       the vast program of internal improvements that soon 
       transformed America"--Provided by publisher. 
600 10 Paine, Thomas,|d1737-1809. 
600 10 Paine, Thomas,|d1737-1809|xPolitical and social views. 
650  0 Political scientists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Architects|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Revolutionaries|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Iron and steel bridges|zPennsylvania|zSchuylkill River
       |xDesign and construction|xHistory. 
650  0 Iron and steel bridges|zPennsylvania|zPhiladelphia Region
       |xDesign and construction|xHistory. 
650  0 Bridges|xPolitical aspects|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Economic development|xPolitical aspects|zUnited States
       |xHistory. 
651  0 United States|xGeography|xPolitical aspects|xHistory. 
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