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Higher : a historic race to the sky and the making of a city / Neal Bascomb.

by Bascomb, Neal.

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New York : Doubleday, c2003.

Skyscrapers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0415/2003048888.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy042/2003048888.html

342 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

A hunch, then a demand -- The architect-artist -- A proud and soaring thing -- The organization man -- Make the land pay -- An American invention -- The poet in overalls -- To scrape the sky -- Equivalent to war -- A three-way race -- Oxygen to the fire -- Call it a "Vertex" -- A monument to the future -- The prize of the race -- The butterfly and its cocoon -- Crash -- Pharaoh against Pharaoh -- Aladdin's Genii and paper fights -- The chase into the sky -- Excelsior -- Spirit--not steel and stone.

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