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Book: You Wouldn't Want To Work On The Brooklyn Bridge by Tom Ratliff

Summarizer: Molly

The book, // You Wouldn’t Want To Work On The Brooklyn Bridge // by Tom Ratliff, is about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. In it, the reader is made to be the character of Roebling ‘s (the designer of the bridge) son. The book describes what a suspension bridge is, how one builds it, and how dangerous it is. It covers each step of the process, from the invention of the new technology used to build the bridge, to why a bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan is needed, to the problems encountered during the building of the bridge (including the death of John Augustus Roebling the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge). The book also includes a glossary of content specific vocabulary that is used throughout the book.