ASIN: B00TRBKW9W
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 92
*Includes pictures*Explains the competition between the two projects to produce the tallest building*Includes accounts of the construction written by workers *Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsOf all the great cities in the world, few personify their country like New York City. As America’s largest city and best known immigration gateway into the country, the Big Apple represents the beauty, diversity and sheer strength of the United States, a global financial center that has enticed people chasing the “American Dream” for centuries. Given that history, it’s no surprise that New Yorkers have always wanted to construct the biggest and best structures possible, even in the early 1930s at the height of the Great Depression. Indeed, those years produced the Empire State Building, which remains the city’s most iconic building, but New York’s most famous ...
