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The Great Bridge

The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

by David McCullough

1972 636 pages eng ★ 5.0 (3 ratings)

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.) But the Bro…

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