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Since opening in 1931, the George Washington Bridge, linking New
York and New Jersey, has become the busiest bridge in the world,
with 103 million vehicles crossing it in 2016. Many people also
consider it the most beautiful bridge in the world, yet remarkably
little has been written about this majestic structure. Intimate and
engaging, this revised and expanded edition of Michael Rockland's
rich narrative presents perspectives on the GWB, as it is often
called, that span history, architecture, engineering,
transportation, design, the arts, politics, and even post-9/11
mentalities. This new edition brings new insight since its initial
publication in 2008, including a new chapter on the infamous
'Bridgegate' Chris Christie-era scandal of 2013, when members of
the governor's administration shut down access to the bridge,
causing a major traffic jam and scandal and subsequently helping
undermine Christie's candidacy for the US presidency. Stunning
photos, from when the bridge was built in the late 1920s through
the present, are a powerful complement to the bridge's history.
Rockland covers the competition between the GWB and the Brooklyn
Bridge that parallels the rivalry between New Jersey and New York
City. Readers will learn about the Swiss immigrant Othmar Ammann,
an unsung hero who designed and built the GWB, and how a lack of
funding during the Depression dictated the iconic, uncovered steel
beams of its towers, which we admire today. There are chapters
discussing accidents on the bridge, such as an airplane crash
landing in the westbound lanes and the sad story of suicides off
its span; the appearance of the bridge in media and the arts; and
Rockland's personal adventures on the bridge, including scaling its
massive towers on a cable. Movies, television shows, songs, novels,
countless images, and even PlayStation 2 games have aided the GWB
in becoming a part of the global popular culture. This tribute will
captivate residents living in the shadow of the GWB, the millions
who walk, jog, bike, skate, or drive across it, as well as tourists
and those who will visit it someday.
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888), Argentine educator,
statesman, and writer, self-educated after the model of Benjamin
Franklin, was "not a man but a nation," in the words of Mrs. Horace
Mann. Like De Tocqueville, this remarkable man visited the United
States in its early years and wrote a detailed account of this new
phenomenon. Full of shrewd social commentary and unique vignettes
of the America of this period-of Boston, for instance, where
Sarmiento met the Horace Manns and later Emerson and
Longfellow-Travels should take its place among the important
commentaries on the United States written during the last century
by foreign visitors. Professor Rockland's introductory essay
provides the broader context in which Travels must be seen: its
place in Sarmiento's life and career and its importance as
testimony to forgotten lines of influence between North and South
America. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library
uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888), Argentine educator,
statesman, and writer, self-educated after the model of Benjamin
Franklin, was "not a man but a nation," in the words of Mrs. Horace
Mann. Like De Tocqueville, this remarkable man visited the United
States in its early years and wrote a detailed account of this new
phenomenon. Full of shrewd social commentary and unique vignettes
of the America of this period-of Boston, for instance, where
Sarmiento met the Horace Manns and later Emerson and
Longfellow-Travels should take its place among the important
commentaries on the United States written during the last century
by foreign visitors. Professor Rockland's introductory essay
provides the broader context in which Travels must be seen: its
place in Sarmiento's life and career and its importance as
testimony to forgotten lines of influence between North and South
America. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library
uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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Navy Crazy (Paperback)
Michael Aaron Rockland
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Stones (Paperback)
Michael Aaron Rockland
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R374
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Discovery Miles 3 140
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STONES is a novel simultaneously serious and comic. It takes place
in one day as its protagonist, Jack Berke, accompanies his aged
mother Rachel to visit the family graves in Brooklyn, Queens, and
further out on Long Island. As Jack negotiates the congested
expressways from cemetery to cemetery, he contemplates the
tombstones, the lives of family members who lie under them, the
stones that, according to Jewish custom, he places on those
tombstones, and the stone that has for a lifetime resided in his
own heart.
When Daniel Boone heard a neighbor's dog bark, he moved West. But
when there's no Wild West left, where is adventure to be found?
Michael Aaron Rockland looks for adventure in the megalopolis, "not
where no one has been but where no one wishes to go . . . across
traffic-clogged cities, the parking lots of wall-to-wall suburban
malls, and the sinister waterways that seep through rusting
industrial sites." In these ten alternately poetic and comic tales
of adventure in the New York/Philadelphia corridor, the most
densely populated chunk of America, Rockland walks and bikes areas
meant only for cars and paddles through waters capable of
dissolving canoes. He hikes the length of New York's Broadway,
camps in New York City, treks across Philadelphia, pedals among the
tractor trailers of Route 1 in New Jersey, and paddles around
Manhattan and through the dark tunnels under Trenton. Whereas Henry
David Thoreau built his cabin on Walden Pond to get out of town,
for Rockland, the challenge is to head into town. As he writes, "in
the late twentieth century, a weed and trash-filled city lot . . .
may be a better place than the wilderness to contemplate one's
relationship to nature."
Container shipping is a vital part of the global economy. Goods
from all around the world, from vegetables to automobiles, are
placed in large metal containers which are transported across the
ocean in ships, then loaded onto tractor-trailers and railroad
flatbeds. But when and where did this world-changing invention get
started? Â This fascinating study traces the birth of
containerization to Port Newark, New Jersey, in 1956 when trucker
Malcom McLean thought of a brilliant new way to transport cargo. It
tells the story of how Port Newark grew rapidly as McLean’s idea
was backed by both New York banks and the US military, who used
containerization to ship supplies to troops in Vietnam. Angus
Gillespie takes us behind the scenes of today’s active container
shipping operations in Port Newark, talking to the pilots who guide
the ships into port, the Coast Guard personnel who help manage the
massive shipping traffic, the crews who unload the containers, and
even the chaplains who counsel and support the mariners. Port
Newark shines a spotlight on the unsung men and women who help this
complex global shipping operation run smoothly. Since McLean's
innovation, Port Newark has expanded with the addition of the
nearby Elizabeth Marine Terminal. This New Jersey complex now makes
up the busiest seaport on the East Coast of the United
States. Some have even called it “America’s Front
Door.” The book tells the story of the rapid growth of
worldwide containerization, and how Port Newark has adapted to
bigger ships with deeper channels and a raised bridge. In the end,
there is speculation of the future of this port with
ever-increasing automation, artificial intelligence, and
automation.
Two American Studies professors from Rutgers University here show
how the New Jersey Turnpike--that "ugly icon, '' America's "widest
and most traveled'' road--has found its way into the minds, if not
the hearts, of artists and drivers alike. In poet Allen Ginsberg,
singer Bruce Springsteen, commuters and roadside home owners lulled
to sleep by its drone of traffic, this 12-lane asphalt monster has
inspired powerful reactions, from admiration to anger. The authors
consider the first asparagus patch plowed up to lay the road; the
$70,000 salary a contemporary toll-taker can earn with hefty
overtime; and the not infrequent lawlessness of the highway patrol.
From the gray-flannel-suit diligence that built it, to the mixture
of necessity, practicality and venality that maintains it, the New
Jersey Turnpike proves to be an enthralling though unlikely
subject.
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