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    Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
    Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
    Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
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    Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge

    Written by Erica Wagner

    Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin

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    "I know that nothing can be done perfectly at the first trial; I also know that each day brings its little quota of experiences, which with honest intentions, will lead to perfection after a while." -Washington Roebling

    His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but after John Roebling's sudden death, Washington Roebling built what has become one of American's most iconic structures-as much a part of New York as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Yet, as recognizable as the bridge is, its builder is too often forgotten-and his life is of interest far beyond his chosen field. It is the story of immigrants, of the frontier, of the greatest crisis in American history, and of the making of the modern world.

    Forty years after the publication of The Great Bridge, David McCullough's classic chronicle of how the East River was spanned, Erica Wagner has written a fascinating biography of one of America's most distinguished engineers, a man whose long life was a model of courage in the face of extraordinary adversity. Chief Engineer is enriched by Roebling's own eloquent voice, unveiled in his recently discovered memoir that was previously thought lost to history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 27, 2017
    ISBN9781541476998
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    Erica Wagner

    Erica Wagner is the author of Gravity: Stories; Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters and Seizure: A Novel. Pas de Deux/A Concert of Stories, co-written with storyteller Abbi Patrix and musician and composer Linda Edsjö, tours around the world. Twice a judge of the Man Booker Prize, she was literary editor of The Times for for seventeen years, and she is now a contributing writer for New Statesman and consulting literary editor for Harper's Bazaar, as well as writing for many publications in Britain and the United States. She is the editor of First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner, which has just been published by Unbound. ericawagner.co.uk / @EricaWgnr

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