Building the Golden Gate Bridge
Title | Building the Golden Gate Bridge PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey Schwartz |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2015-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0295806206 |
Silver Award Winner, 2016 Nautilus Book Award in Young Adult (YA) Non-Fiction Moving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge is the first book to primarily feature the voices of the workers themselves. This is the story of survivors who vividly recall the hardships, hazards, and victories of constructing the landmark span during the Great Depression. Labor historian Harvey Schwartz has compiled oral histories of nine workers who helped build the celebrated bridge. Their powerful recollections chronicle the technical details of construction, the grueling physical conditions they endured, the small pleasures they enjoyed, and the gruesome accidents some workers suffered. The result is an evocation of working-class life and culture in a bygone era. Most of the bridge builders were men of European descent, many of them the sons of immigrants. Schwartz also interviewed women: two nurses who cared for the injured and tolerated their antics, the wife of one 1930s builder, and an African American ironworker who toiled on the bridge in later years. These powerful stories are accompanied by stunning photographs of the bridge under construction. An homage to both the American worker and the quintessential San Francisco landmark, Building the Golden Gate Bridge expands our understanding of Depression-era labor and California history and makes a unique contribution to the literature of this iconic span.
Latinos at the Golden Gate
Title | Latinos at the Golden Gate PDF eBook |
Author | Tomás F. Summers Sandoval (Jr.) |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469607662 |
Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco
San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
Title | San Francisco's Golden Gate Park PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Pollock |
Publisher | Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co. |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, Calif.) |
ISBN | 1558685456 |
This gorgeous book captures the wonders of this park by the bay. Filled with color photos and historical documents documenting the park's illustrious and colorful past.
Golden Gates
Title | Golden Gates PDF eBook |
Author | Conor Dougherty |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2020-02-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 052556022X |
A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism • Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post • Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune • Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy • Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival • A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Tells the story of housing in all its complexity.” —NPR Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist movements that have risen in tandem with housing costs.
The Golden Gate Bridge
Title | The Golden Gate Bridge PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Zuehlke |
Publisher | LernerClassroom |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0761350128 |
Guess how many vehicles drive across the Golden Gate Bridge each year?
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
Title | Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague PDF eBook |
Author | David K. Randall |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2019-05-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393609464 |
A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress. For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin—a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong’s tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed ten million lives worldwide. To local press, railroad barons, and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivable—or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, ending the career of one of the most brilliant scientists in the nation in the process, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued. Spearheading a relentless crusade for sanitation, Blue and his men patrolled the squalid streets of fast-growing San Francisco, examined gory black buboes, and dissected diseased rats that put the fate of the entire country at risk. In the tradition of Erik Larson and Steven Johnson, Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blue’s race to understand the disease and contain its spread—the only hope of saving San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate.
Immigration at the Golden Gate
Title | Immigration at the Golden Gate PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Eric Barde |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2008-03-30 |
Genre | History |
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Presents the history of San Francisco's Angel Island Immigration Station that operated between 1910 and 1940. Argues that Asian immigrants, rather than being welcomed, were denied liberties and even entrance to the United States.