Main entry:

McCullough, David G.

Title & Author:

The Great Bridge / David McCullough.

Publication:

New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1972.

Description:

636 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-612) and index.
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.
Also issued online.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0671212133
9780671212131
067145711X (pbk.)
9780671457112 (pbk.)

Subject:

Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
New York (State) New York Brooklyn Bridge

Holdings:

Location: Library main 83246
Call No.: W9201; ID:85-B11367
Status: Available

Location: Library main 83245
Call No.: 715; ID:85-B11367
Status: Available