MONUMENTAL: ENTHRALLING: NEW First Edition (Orig 1972, Reprint Edition 2001) Ninth Printing (c.20040): NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing Orig. ILLUSTRATIONS: 2: 16-pp inserts w/ choice illustrations handsomely-reproduced on EXCELLENT gloss-laminated paper: (a) following p 160 (24 b-w photos & other images) & (b) 448 (20 b-w photos & other images) (illustrator). 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Hardcover. Like the engineering marvel it describes, The Great Bridge, republished on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, has stood the test of time. Without John Roeblingâ€™s vision, his son Washingtonâ€™s skill and courage, and Washingtonâ€™s wife Emilyâ€™s dedication, the bridge we know and cherish would never have been built. The Great Bridge is also the story of a remarkable family, the Roeblings, who conceived and executed the audacious engineering plan at great personal cost. But the story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge is not just the saga of an engineering miracle it is a sweeping narrative of the social climate of the time, replete with heroes and rascals who helped either to construct or to exploit the great enterprise. Bodies were crushed and broken, lives lost, notorious political empires fell, and surges of public doubt constantly threatened the project. During fourteen years of construction, the odds against success seemed overwhelming. So daring a concept as spanning the East River to join two great cities required vision and dedication of the kind that went into building Europeâ€™s great cathedrals. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the Civil War, when Americans believed all things were possible. This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nationâ€™s history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world.

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