Golden Gate : : the Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge
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Bridge -- Icon -- Site -- Vision -- Politics -- Money -- Design -- Construction -- City -- Suicide -- Art.
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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PUBLISHED
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 215 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781596915343
159691534X
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Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.)