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The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
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The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Hardcover - 2014

by Talese, Gay


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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 dealing that displaced whole neighborhoods to make way for the bridge. Now in a new, beautifully packaged edition featuring dozens of breathtaking photos and architectural drawings, The Bridge remains both a riveting narrative of politics and courage and a demonstration of Talese's consummate reporting and storytelling that will captivate new generations of readers.

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  • Title The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
  • Author Talese, Gay
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 192
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury USA
  • Date 2014-10
  • ISBN 9781620406663

About the author

Gay Talese is the bestselling author of eleven books including The Kingdom and the Power: The, Thy Neighbor's Wife, Honor Thy Father, and A Writer's Life. Bloomsbury has published two collections of his writing, The Gay Talese Reader and The Silent Season of a Hero. Talese lives in New York City
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Bloomsbury USA, 2014. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). A beautiful copy of this anniversary edition, signed by Talese on the title page and quite uncommon thus. "In honor of the bridge's fiftieth anniversary next month, Bloomsbury is releasing a new edition of Mr. Talese's work. It features an afterword in which Mr. Talese, 82, updates readers on the lives of the ironworkers he spent five years profiling.The Verrazano-Narrows is worthy of this second look. Before the bridge, Staten Island was virtually cut off from the veins of the city; in the last fifty years, the borough has grown from its rural base to a population of almost 475,000. But The Bridge demands attention today for more than this context: The work represents a high moment in American literary nonfiction, a time when, according to Mr. Talese, "minor characters could take center stage.".
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