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Great Bridge
The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge  
By David McCullough
This edition: Classic Edition Hardcover, 608 pages
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction
Author's Note

PART ONE

1. The Plan
2. Man of Iron
3. The Genuine Language of America
4. Father and Son
5. Brooklyn
6. The Proper Person to See
7. The Chief Engineer

PART TWO

8. All According to Plan
9. Down in the Caisson
10. Fire
11. The Past Catches Up
12. How Natural, Right, and Proper
13. The Mysterious Disorder
14. The Heroic Mode

PART THREE

15. At the Halfway Mark
16. Spirits of '76
17. A Perfect Pandemonium
18. Number 8, Birmingham Gauge
19. The Gigantic Spinning Machine
20. Wire Fraud
21. Emily
22. The Man in the Window
23. And Yet the Bridge Is Beautiful
24. The People's Day



Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Picture Credits
Bibliography
Index