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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

David McCullough

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

Annie Jacobsen and Hachette Audio

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il

Michael Malice, Marcus Freeman, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy)

Martin Luther Dr. King Jr., Vincent Harding, et al.

4.9 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Malcolm Gladwell and Pushkin Industries

4.4 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life

Patrick Van Horne , Jason A. Riley , et al.

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Erik Larson, Scott Brick, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Tom Standage

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Camilla Townsend

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Origins and History of Consciousness: Bollingen Series

Erich Neumann, R. F. C. Hull - translator, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

Reeves Wiedeman

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Hiroshima

John Hersey

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Silvia Federici

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Liza Mundy

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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greenyodaonJan 1, 2020

For those interested in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, the book The Great Bridge[1] tells a very interesting story of both the difficult engineering problems and the political intrigue of those times.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/067145711X

encodereronDec 8, 2014

The Great Bridge is a phenomenal engineering story (and so much more). The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was chilling but I'd read it again. Simply fascinating, written by a western reporter who was actually there.

thwartedonNov 28, 2010

There is a book The Great Bridge[1] that is a detailed history of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and Roebling. When I read it, they were describing the problem of "caisson disease", and I was literally screaming "They have the bends! They're coming out of the pressurized rooms under the casson too fast!" It was really interesting to see the perspective without the knowledge what we'd consider to be common knowledge knowadays.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Great-Bridge-Story-Building-Brooklyn/d...

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