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Genre/Form: | Biographies Interviews Biography |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Harvey Schwartz |
ISBN: | 9780295995069 0295995068 |
OCLC Number: | 905801852 |
Description: | 187 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Fred Divita: Field engineer -- John Noren: Elevator man -- Glenn McIntyre: Ironworker -- John Urban: Cable spinner -- Fred Brusati: Electrician -- Martin Adams: Laborer -- Evan C. "Slim" Lambert: Survivor -- Al Zampa: Legend -- Mary Zita Felciano and Patricia Deweese: Nurses -- Walter Vestnys and Joyce "Big J" Harris: Maintenance ironworkers -- |gEpilogue. |
Responsibility: | Harvey Schwartz. |
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Gripping from beginning to end. . . . Schwartz has again succeeded in producing a powerful story of work and workers on the Pacific Coast. The book will be of immense value to social historians, labor historians, and California historians and is ideal for use in the classroom. Whatever your reason for picking up this book, you will be moved while reading. And, when finished, you will see the Gate in a new way. -- Steven C. Beda * Pacific Northwest Quarterly * Accompanied by stunning photographs, this is the powerful story of survivors who vividly recall the hardships, hazards and victories that were experienced by the construction workers, 11 of whom lost their lives. -- Fran Barba * Bradenton Herald * Gripping from beginning to end. . . . Schwartz has again succeeded in producing a powerful story of work and workers on the Pacific Coast. The book will be of immense value to social historians, labor historians, and California historians and is ideal for use in the classroom. Whatever your reason for picking up this book, you will be moved while reading. And, when finished, you will see the Gate in a new way. -- Steven C. Beda * Pacific Northwest Quarterly * [F]ascinating. . . . this book paints a vivid portrait of those who were faced with the prospect of abject poverty during the Great Depression, and dipped into personal reserves of strength and character in order to survive. . . . [T]hanks to the diligent and painstaking work of Harvey Schwartz. . . their personal stories remain with us, inspire us, and remind us that after all the rhetoric, grand visions become a reality when very ordinary people work hard to accomplish the extraordinary. -- Bill Hohlfeld * LaborPress * [Building the Golden Gate Bridge] brings together the gripping first-person accounts of the backbreaking work, terrifying physical conditions, tragedies and triumphs that bridge workers experienced as the Golden Gate went up. -- Georgia Rowe * San Jose Mercury News * Read more...


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