Profiles the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and why you wouldn't have wanted to work on it!
Upon completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, P.T. Barnum and his twenty- one elephants parade across to prove to everyone that the bridge is safe.
Haw's account is not a history of how the bridge was made, but rather of what people have made of the Brooklyn Bridge - in film, music, literature, art, and politics - from its opening ceremonies to the blackout of 2003."--BOOK JACKET.
Describes the events leading up to, and during, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge.