The Great Bridge
Book description
Forty years after its original publication, David McCullough's masterful history of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge has become a classic work and is now being reissued with a new preface from the author. The building of the Brooklyn Bridge was a time of optimism and corruption, a time when…
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Yes, you want to read a history of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s not just fascinating, it is genuinely exciting.
McCullough is best known for his presidential biographies, but I find this work much more interesting because the subject is so unpredictable, the protagonists (the Roeblings) are such tragic figures and the bridge itself is so unique. The Brooklyn Bridge is very close to where the Fulton Fish Market was so I got to write about the way that the bridge affected the flow of traffic through the city.
This is a different story because it centers more…
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