Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, the Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072W8DGZ6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 242 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Outstanding Biography" according to Karizma. This is a very well-written book that I thoroughly enjoyed. A very detailed look at the life of Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge. I knew a little about him from David McCullough's book but Ms. Wagner paints a very vivid portrait of Roebling the man. From his harsh upbringing through his Civil War travails, Roebling overcame it all to become one of the great names in engineering. An excellent read from a very talented writer.. Wire to Wire A well-written and engaging biography of a man who, on his own and through his family's wire company, was a significant part of the making of post-Civil War America. This book pivots around the building of the heroic Brooklyn Bridge, but there is much more to the life story of Washington Roebling.Erica Wagner is an excellent tour guide to this vibrant and complex man, one who is now largely forgotten by history.In this day when superficial celebrity, sports, and political biographie. John Hofmeister said More than a story: the way and the development of a nation. Chief Engineer is to me not only an outstanding and well researched biography of an extraordinary person helping to build a nation and an artistically well-written book where language and structure captivate, elevate and hold the reader. It is much more. There are carefully written subtexts as I read this book that like a mirror reflect on the maturing and evolving American society of the day: the economic, social, cultural and class relationships that evolved during this churning,
Chief Engineer is enriched by Roebling's own eloquent voice, unveiled in his recently discovered memoir that was previously thought lost to history.. Forty years after the publication of The Great Bridge, David McCullough's classic chronicle of how the East River was spanned, Erica Wagner has written a fascinating biography of one of America's most distinguished engineers, a man whose long life was a model of courage in the face of extraordinary adversity. It is the story of immigrants, of the frontier, of the greatest crisis in American history, and of the making of the modern world. "I know that nothing can be done perfectly at the first trial; I also know that each day brings its little quota of experiences, which with honest intentions will lead to perfection after a while." (Was