- Bridges, Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.), History, Brooklyn bridge (new york, n.y.)
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.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and epic.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- David McCullough
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 622
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Limited, Books On Tape, Simon & Schuster Audio
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743217378
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“THEY MET at his request on at least six different occasions, beginning in February 1869.”
David Gaub McCullough has been widely acclaimed as a “master of the art of narrative history.” He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, twice winner of the National Book Award, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
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