“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,
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