{"product_id":"9781608192922","title":"Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge","description":"The Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wild\u003cbr\u003e headlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of California \u003cbr\u003eand America itself-the place that Fitzgerald saw as the last spot \u003cbr\u003ecommensurate with the human capacity for wonder. The bridge, completed \u003cbr\u003ein 1937, also announced to the world America's engineering prowess and \u003cbr\u003efull assumption of its destined continental dominance. The Golden Gate \u003cbr\u003eis a counterpart to the Statue of Liberty, pronouncing American \u003cbr\u003eachievement in an unmistakable American fashion. The nation's very \u003cbr\u003ehistory is expressed in the bridge's art deco style and stark \u003cbr\u003everticality. \u003cbr\u003eKevin Starr's \u003ci\u003eGolden Gate \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliant and \u003cbr\u003epassionate telling of the history of the bridge, and the rich and \u003cbr\u003epeculiar history of the California experience. The Golden Gate is a \u003cbr\u003egrand public work, a symbol and a very real bridge, a magnet for both \u003cbr\u003epostcard photographs and suicides. In this compact but comprehensive \u003cbr\u003enarrative, Starr unfolds the hidden-in-plain-sight meaning of the Golden\u003cbr\u003e Gate, putting it in its place among classic works of art.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138789097712,"sku":"9781608192922","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608192922_p0.jpg?v=1763833732","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608192922","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}