The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

In the 19th century, the Brooklyn Bridge was viewed as the greatest engineering feat of mankind. The Roeblings--father and son--toiled for decades, fighting competitors, corrupt politicians, and the laws of nature to fabricate a bridge which, after 100 years, still provides one of the major avenues of access to one of the world's busiest cities--as compared to many bridges built at the same time which collapsed within decades or even years. It is refreshing to read such a magnificent story of real architecture and engineering in an era where these words refer to tiny bits and bytes that inspire awe only in their abstract consequences, and not in their tangible physical magnificence.

• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
• The Johnstown Flood
• The Wright Brothers
• Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
• Brave Companions: Portraits In History
• Truman
• The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
• The Wright Brothers
• The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
• In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story