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Gay Talese is known for his daring pursuit of "unreportable" stories, for his exhaustive research, and for his formally elegant style. These qualities, arguably, are the touchstones of the finest literary journalism. Talese is often cited as one of the founders of the 1960s "New Journalism," but he has always politely demurred from this label, insisting that his "stories with real names" represent no reformist crusade, but rather his own highly personal response to the world as an Italian-American "outsider."
Anonymous
Posted February 1, 2012
Book is more about the men who worked on the bridge, rather than the bridge itself, however I found parts to be very interesting. The scanning, thiugh, is terrible and made parts if this book hard to read.
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Posted March 21, 2012
I share others' thoughts ... book is about the people rather than the bridge and whoever did the scanning for the eBook did a terrible review job! You can't change the font style or size. It's a quick read, once you figure out that "Alackinac" means "Mackinac" and "Airs." means "Mrs." There were a few sentences I never did figure out ...
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Posted March 4, 2012
If you can get past the glitches caused by what must have been optical scanning of an existing text format, this book will give you new respect for bridges & those who build them. I think Talese wants to remind us how much we take these skills & their attendant risks for granted. -- catwak
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Posted February 11, 2012
Many errors and font cant be changed makes for an extremely poor ebook experience
Book itself is ok, but rather shallow and has little information about the bridge itself or its construction• mostly just stories about some of the workers on it and a few of the people displaced by its construction
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Overview
The Bridge is a riveting human drama of politics and courage, anda demonstration of the legendary Gay Talese's consummate skills as a reporter and
storyteller.
Towards the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge-linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island with New Jersey-was completed. It remains an engineering marvel almost forty years later-at 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest ...