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Golden Gate : the life and times of America's greatest bridge / Kevin Starr.

by Starr, Kevin.

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New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.

Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.)

9781596915343 (alk. paper)

215 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.

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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