![]() Walking it has been on my own personal bucket list since first reading this book. Tangentially even Henry Ward Beecher had a part to play.įor a while, Brooklyn’s Great Bridge was the world’s largest suspension bridge and even though eclipsed by later works including the Golden Gate, it is still the only bridge with a pedestrian promenade. Barnes (whom you might associate with today’s Barns & Noble), Seth Low (two-term mayor of Brooklyn, and one-term mayor of New York), and William Marcy Tweed (the infamous “Boss” Tweed of Tammany Hall). One of the reasons I found the book so fascinating was the great love and respect Washington and Emily showed each other, culminating in Emily’s selfless dedication to Washington after he suffered physical catastrophe during the bridge’s construction.īesides the Roeblings, the cast of characters involved with the bridge contains a who’s who of New York’s political and industrial giants, including A.C. Roebling, it was his son Washington who completed it, along with his incredible wife Emily - as unlikely a story in the Victorian era as one might encounter. The main focus of the book is the bridge, but it is about the fascinating human beings who made the bridge possible. As is the case with other McCullough works, it is superbly crafted and reads as well as any great work of fiction. ![]() It tells the tale of how the Brooklyn Bridge was conceived and built. ![]() ![]() ![]() David McCullough’s The Great Bridge is an extraordinary book. ![]()
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