The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

By (author): "David McCullough"
Publish Date: January 1st 1972
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
ISBN0743217373
ISBN139780743217378
AsinThe Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Original titleThe Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Published on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book contains a new Preface by David McCullough, “one of our most gifted living writers” (The Washington Post).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.)