The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano (or, more properly, Verrazzano) Narrows Bridge-linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island-was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the sixth longest in the world. Gay Talese, then early in his career at the New York Times, closely followed the construction, and soon after the opening of this marvel of human ingenuity and engineering, he chronicled the human drama of its completion-from the construction workers high on the beams to the backroom…
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- ISBN: 978-1-62040-666-3
- EAN: 9781620406663
- Produktnummer: 15883500
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 175 S.
- Masse: H28.7 cm x B22.2 cm x D2.7 cm 1'220 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 1220
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