High steel : the daring men who built the world's greatest skyline / Jim Rasenberger.

Main entry:

Rasenberger, Jim.

Title & Author:

High steel : the daring men who built the world's greatest skyline / Jim Rasenberger.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-354) and index.
Prologue: Of Steel and Men 1 -- Part I The Hole -- Part II The Bridge -- Part III The Fall.
Includes sections on the steel workers of Kahnawake and Newfoundland, and the 1907 Québec Bridge collapse.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"High Steel is the stirring epic of men and of the icons they built - and are building still. Shifting between past and present, Jim Rasenberger travels back to the earliest iron bridges and buildings of the nineteenth century; to the triumph of the Brooklyn Bridge and the 1907 tragedy of the Quebec Bridge, where seventy-five ironworkers, including thirty-three Mohawks, lost their lives in an instant; through New York's skyscraper boom of the late 1920s, when ironworkers were hailed as "industrial age heroes." All the while Rasenberger documents the lives of several contemporary ironworkers raising steel on a twenty-first-century skyscraper, the Time Warner building in New York City."--Jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

0060004347
9780060004347

Subject:

Structural steel workers United States Biography.
Building, Iron and steel New York (State) New York History.
Construction métallique New York (État) New York Histoire.
Building, Iron and steel.
Buildings.
Structural steel workers.
Buildings New York (N.Y.)
Steel construction New York History.
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New York (State) New York.
United States.
Kahnawake Indian Reserve (Québec) Description and travel.
Québec (Québec) Buildings, structures, etc.
Pont de Québec (Québec)

Form/genre:

Biographies.
collective biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233298
Call No.: TH139 .R37 2004
Status: Available

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