David mccullough the brooklyn bridge6/21/2023 ![]() But despite diligent efforts by the author the details of the construction work - from sinking the caissons, to underground blasting, stringing of cables and pouring of cement - will crush the determination of all but the most indomitable reader. True, too, the vital statistics of the bridge are formidable. True, the Roeblings, father and son who served successively as Chief Engineer, are cast in a heroic mold. McCullough's outsized biography of the bridge attempts to capture in one majestic sweep the full glory of the achievement but the story sags mightily in the middle. ![]() Like the Atlantic cable and the Suez Canal it was a gigantic embodiment in steel and concrete of the Age of Enterprise. ![]() ![]() It took 14 years to build and it cost 15 million dollars and the lives of 20 workmen. ![]()
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