Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge (Paperback) by Kevin Starr

from stevetempo

Kevin Starr does an excellent job in framing this great American icon into a wonderful interdisciplinary context.. His descriptions, both detailed and poetic, serve to clearly convey a wonderful understanding and an appreciation of the development of this engineering wonder. I found his categoric...

from williwhy

Starr does his usual excellent job of placing this bridge into historic, geographic, and cultural contexts. The prose is often beautiful and engaging, but sometimes over-reaching and forced. The story could have stood on its own merits, and did not really need to be forced into a thesis that this...

from williwhy

Starr does his usual excellent job of placing this bridge into historic, geographic, and cultural contexts. The prose is often beautiful and engaging, but sometimes over-reaching and forced. The story could have stood on its own merits, and did not really need to be forced into a thesis that this...

from Travis1259

After watching Ken Burns fascinating documentary about the Brooklyn Bridge on PBS I jumped at the chance to read and review Golden Gate by Ken Starr. The author, a history professor and published historian included many facts unknown to me such as how the bridge got its name. It's named after the...

from koalamom

Say San Francisco and the first thing most people think of is the Golden Gate Bridge. Starr's books gives a good and concise history of the building of this remarkable landmark - a "Wonder of the World." It gives incite in the political machinations in getting the bridge built. Many didn't want i...