Golden Gate
The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge
by Kevin Starr
July 2010
$30.00
240 pp, 5 1/16" x 7 1/4"
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781596915343
“Kevin Starr seems particularly well equipped to write a biography of that famous orange bridge. The author of more than half a dozen histories of California, Mr. Starr has written frequently about the myths and metaphors that festoon the Golden State, and he seems to instinctively understand the place that the Golden Gate Bridge has come to occupy in the national imagination as a symbol of American enterprise and the gateway to the Pacific. —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times.
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“Powerful.” —The Economist. Read full review of Oreskes' and Conway's Merchants of Doubt.
