The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York

This masterpiece of historical graphic storytelling brings readers the epic struggle to build an icon-and the family that sacrificed everything to see it through.

In the mid-19th century, the East River was a treacherous divide that froze the heartbeat of New York. To bridge it, one man had a vision that most called impossible. But the story of the Brooklyn Bridge isn't just one of stone, steel, and "caisson disease"-it is a multi-generational saga of obsession, tragedy, and breathtaking per...