The Great Bridge Author:David McCullough The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. — David McCullough has taken a dramatic and colorful episode out of the American past and described it in such as way that he sheds fresh light on a whole era of American history. This is primarily, of course, a book about how the Roeblings built the great bridge across the East River, but i... more »s also, in part at least, a book about the grasping Tweed ring and how it got its hands on a city project, about how the reformers ousted the machine politicians and then proved an even greater problem to the engineers who were trying to build the bridge. Additionally, it is an excellent story in the technical problems involved in the construction project and in the human price tha was part of the solution. All in all this is a first-rate book.- Bruce Catton« less