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Format:
Book
Title:
Golden Gate : the life and times of America's greatest bridge
Author:
ISBN:
9781596915343
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Physical Description:
215 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Contents:
Bridge -- Icon -- Site -- Vision -- Politics -- Money -- Design -- Construction -- City -- Suicide -- Art.
Summary:
The Golden Gate, a dazzling feat of engineering completed in 1937, is a counterpart to the Statue of Liberty, pronouncing American achievement in an unmistakably American fashion. This is a passionate telling of the history of the bridge, and the rich and peculiar history of the California experience. The Golden Gate is a grand public work, a symbol and a very real bridge, a magnet for both postcard photographs and suicides. In this compact but comprehensive narrative, historian Kevin Starr unfolds the hidden-in-plain-sight meaning of the Golden Gate, putting it in its place among classic works of art--From publisher description.
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