TY - GEN AU - McCullough, David TI - Great bridge : the epic story of the building of the Brooklyn bridge SN - 9780671457112 U1 - 624.2 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster Paperbacks KW - N1 - CONTENTS AUTHOR'S NOTE PART ONE 1. The Plan 21 2. Man of Iron 39 3. The Genuine Language of America 63 4. Father and Son 85 5. Brooklyn 103 6. The Proper Person to See 122 7. The Chief Engineer 144 PART TWO 8. All According to Plan 173 9. Down in the Caisson 195 PICTURE SECTION 215 10. Fire 231 11. The Past Catches Up 248 12. How Natural, Right, and Proper 269 13. The Mysterious Disorder 289 14. The Heroic Mode 309 PART THREE 15. At the Halfway Mark 325 16. Spirits of '76 339 17. A Perfect Pandemonium 355 18. Number 8, Birmingham Gauge 372 19. The Gigantic Spinning Machine 397 PICTURE SECTION 20. Wire Fraud 434 21. Emily 452 22. The Man in the Window 479 23. And Yet the Bridge Is Beautiful 505 24. The People's Day 525 EPILOGUE 543 APPENDIX 563 NOTES 567 PICTURE CREDITS 601 BIBLIOGRAPHY 603 INDEX 613 ER -