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Total Pages : 120 pages
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Author : Samuel W. Green
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ISBN 13 : 9780849016554
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Author : Richard Haw
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813535876
Total Pages : 332 pages
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Download or read book The Brooklyn Bridge written by Richard Haw and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bringing together more than sixty images of the bridge that, over the years, have graced postcards, magazine covers, and book jackets and appeared in advertisements, cartoons, films, and photographs, Haw traces the diverse and sometimes jarring ways in which this majestic structure has been received, adopted, and interpreted as an American idea. Haw's account is not a history of how the bridge was made, but rather of what people have made of the Brooklyn Bridge - in film, music, literature, art, and politics - from its opening ceremonies to the blackout of 2003."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451683235
Total Pages : 608 pages
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Download or read book The Great Bridge written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972; reprinted with new preface by the author.
Author : S. W. Green
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ISBN 13 : 9780282568481
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book A Complete History of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge written by S. W. Green and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Complete History of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge: From Its Conception in 1866 to Its Completion in 1883The tide of travel begins to flow back and forth over the great structure which now unites the largest and the third largest cities of the Union, the Atlantic pulsating between. N 0 longer can the impatient passenger over the East River, detained by fog or ice, look up at the slowly-growing causeway overhead, and wonder to himself and his neighbor whether he shall live to cross it, and incredulously shake his head. The old Brooklyn resident sees the task accomplished; and the long years of waiting dwindle to a moment smaller than that in which the Arabian Nights hero ducked his head in the tub of water, and experienced the vicissitudes of half a lifetime before he drew it out again, and all within the com pass of a breath. How recent seems the agitation whether such a thing were possible; the various plans, bordering all the way from Sober sanity to stark inanity; how of yesterday the persistent face and figure that buttonholed the traveller at Fulton and Main Streets.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Arne Arthur Jakkula
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Total Pages : 574 pages
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Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451658257
Total Pages : 4558 pages
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Download or read book David McCullough Library E-book Box Set written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 4558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for David McCullough fans and history lovers alike, this ebook boxed set features all of his bestselling titles, from 1776 to Mornings on Horseback. This ebook box set includes all of David McCullough’s bestselling titles: 1776 is the riveting story of George Washington, the men who marched with him, and their British foes in the momentous year of American independence. Brave Companions contains profiles of the exceptional men and women who shaped history, among them Alexander von Humboldt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charles and Anne Lindbergh. The Great Bridge is the remarkable, enthralling story of the planning and construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which linked two great cities and epitomized American optimism, skill, and determination. John Adams is the magisterial, Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of the independent, irascible Yankee patriot, one of our nation’s founders and most important figures, who became our second president. The Johnstown Flood is the classic history of an American tragedy that became a scandal in the age of the Robber Barons, the preventable flood that destroyed a town and killed 2,000 people. Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant National Book Award–winning biography of young Theodore Roosevelt’s metamorphosis from sickly child to a vigorous, intense man poised to become a national hero and then president. Path Between the Seas is the epic National Book Award–winning history of the heroic successes, tragic failures, and astonishing engineering and medical feats that made the Panama Canal possible. Truman is the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry Truman, the complex and courageous man who rose from modest origins to make momentous decisions as president, from dropping the atomic bomb to going to war in Korea. A special bonus is included: The Course of Human Events. In this Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, David McCullough draws on his personal experience as a historian to acknowledge the crucial importance of writing in history’s enduring impact and influence, and he affirms the significance of history in teaching us about human nature through the ages.
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451658230
Total Pages : 2004 pages
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Download or read book David McCullough Great Moments in History E-book Box Set written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 2004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author David McCullough, a special ebook boxed set features books that study key points of American history. The David McCullough Great Moments in History ebook box set includes the following McCullough classics: 1776 is the riveting story of George Washington, the men who marched with him, and their British foes in the momentous year of American independence. The Johnstown Flood is the classic history of an American tragedy that became a scandal in the age of the Robber Barons, the preventable flood that destroyed a town and killed 2,000 people. Path Between the Seas is the epic National Book Award–winning history of the heroic successes, tragic failures, and astonishing engineering and medical feats that made the Panama Canal possible. The Great Bridge is the remarkable, enthralling story of the planning and construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which linked two great cities and epitomized American optimism, skill, and determination. A special bonus is included: The Course of Human Events. In this Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, David McCullough draws on his personal experience as a historian to acknowledge the crucial importance of writing in history’s enduring impact and influence, and he affirms the significance of history in teaching us about human nature through the ages.
Author : Alan Trachtenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226811158
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Brooklyn Bridge written by Alan Trachtenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1979-07-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen of Walker Evans's evocative photographs of Brooklyn Bridge, most of which have never been published, appear in this edition of Alan Trachenberg's Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol. In the new afterword Trachenberg explores the history of Hart Crane's The Bridge, especially the poem's integral relationship with the powerful photography of Evans. "[Brooklyn Bridge] is familiar in so many movies, in so many stage sets and, as Mr. Trachtenberg shows in this brilliant . . . book, it is at least as much a symbol as a reality. . . . Mr. Trachtenberg is always exciting and illuminating."—Times Literary Supplement "The book is a skillful and insightful synthesis of materials about Brooklyn Bridge from such diverse fields as history, engineering, literature and art. Essentially it asks the question of why Brooklyn Bridge achieved such great impact on the nineteenth century American imagination and why it has continued to have a significant impact on twentieth century art and literature. In addition to its exploration of the bridge's symbolic significance, which includes perceptive analyses of such particular works as Hart Crane's great poem cycle and the paintings of artists like Joseph Stella, the book also includes a solidly researched account of the conception, planning and construction of the bridge. Trachtenberg's account of the intellectual and cultural sources of the bridge is particularly fascinating in its demonstration of the convergence of many different philosophical and ideological currents of the time around this great engineering enterprise, illustrating as effectively as any discussion I know the complex interplay of ideas and material culture."—John G. Cawelti, University of Chicago "Alan Trachtenberg's Brooklyn Bridge is a fascinating story, the philosophic genesis of the idea in Europe, John Roebling's heroic effort to translate it into masonry and steel, and the meanings that Americans attached to the physical object as an emblem of their aspirations."—Leo Marx, Amherst College, author of The Machine in the Garden
Author : Stacy Perman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439190100
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book A Grand Complication written by Stacy Perman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two wealthy and powerful men engage in a decades-long contest to create and possess the most remarkable watch in history. James Ward Packard of Warren, Ohio, was an entrepreneur and a talented engineer of infinite curiosity, a self-made man who earned millions from his inventions, including the design and manufacture of America’s first luxury car—the elegant and storied Packard. Henry Graves, Jr., was the very essence of blue-blooded refinement in the early 1900s: son of a Wall Street financier, a central figure in New York high society, and a connoisseur of beautiful things—especially fine watches. Then, as now, expensive watches were the ultimate sign of luxury and wealth, but in the early twentieth century the limitless ambition, wealth, and creativity of these two men pushed the boundaries of mathematics, astronomy, craftsmanship, technology, and physics to create ever more ingenious timepieces. In any watch, features beyond the display of hours, minutes, and seconds are known as “complications.” Packard and Graves spurred acclaimed Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe to create the Mona Lisa of timepieces—a fabled watch that incorporated twenty-four complications and took nearly eight years to design and build. For the period, it was the most complicated watch ever created. For years it disappeared, but then it surfaced at a Sotheby’s auction in 1999, touching off a heated bidding war, shattering all known records when it fetched $11 million from an anonymous bidder. New York Times bestselling author Stacy Perman takes us from the clubby world of New York high society into the ateliers of the greatest Swiss watchmakers, and into the high-octane, often secretive subculture of modern-day watch collecting. With meticulous research, vivid historical details, and a wealth of dynamic personalities, A Grand Complication is the fascinating story of the thrilling duel between two of the most intriguing men of the early twentieth century. Above all, it is a sweeping chronicle of innovation, the desire for beauty, and the lengths people will go to possess it.
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Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Engineering Experiment Station Series written by Texas Engineering Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Barnard Steinman
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Total Pages : 496 pages
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Download or read book The Builders of the Bridge written by David Barnard Steinman and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the builders of the Niagara, Cincinnati, and Brooklyn bridges.
Author : Brooklyn Public Library
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Total Pages : 44 pages
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Author : Donald Langmead
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313342083
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Icons of American Architecture [2 volumes] written by Donald Langmead and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What turns a building into an icon? What is it about some structures that makes their history and legend even more important than their original intended use, making them a part of American, and world, popular culture? Twenty four buildings and structures, including the Brooklyn Bridge, the White House, the Hotel del Coronado, and the Washington Monument are presented here, along with their roles in fiction, film, music, and the imagination of people worldwide. Approximately twenty five images are included in the set, along with sidebars featuring additional structures.
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Total Pages : 608 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
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Publisher : Bedford Square Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1835010695
Total Pages : 384 pages
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