{"id":4076,"date":"2016-03-11T00:41:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T00:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2016-03-11T00:41:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T00:41:52","slug":"the-great-bridge-the-epic-story-of-the-building-of-the-brooklyn-bridge-by-david-mccullough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4076","title":{"rendered":"The Great Bridge: the epic story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4109\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1001535\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4109\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/The-Great-Bridge-1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Great Bridge\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/The-Great-Bridge-1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/The-Great-Bridge-1.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of McCullough&#8217;s early books, this is the amazing story of the planning and building of what would become, at the time, the world&#8217;s longest suspension bridge.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a tale of tremendous optimism and accomplishment as well as a story of greed, political rivalry\u00a0and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>McCullough devotes a good portion of the book to the engineer behind the project.\u00a0 But he sets\u00a0his accomplish into a broader, historical context.\u00a0 It is the tale of two cities &#8212; New York (Manhattan) and Brooklyn &#8212; their growth, development and increasing inter-dependence.\u00a0 The engineering obstacles were enormous.\u00a0 The construction obstacles more so &#8211; bodies were crushed and broken; danger was the constant companion of the construction workers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fantastic story.\u00a0 Give it a good read, then, take a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of McCullough&#8217;s early books, this is the amazing story of the planning and building of what would become, at the time, the world&#8217;s longest suspension bridge.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a tale of tremendous optimism and accomplishment as well as a story of greed, political rivalry\u00a0and corruption. McCullough devotes a good portion of the book to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4076\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Great Bridge: the epic story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}