The lobster shift returned home from a long night of pouring drinks, driving taxis, scrubbing floors, or walking the beat on the mad city streets.
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Higher
A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
by Neal Bascomb
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A history of the competitive constructions of the Chrysler Building, the Manhattan Company Building, and the Empire State Building describes the fierce rivalries of their architects and the individuals who supported or thwarted their efforts.
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"The lobster shift returned home from a long night of pouring drinks, driving taxis, scrubbing floors, or walking the beat on the mad city streets."
Table of Contents
Prologue : The soaring Twenties
Part one.
A hunch, then a demand
The architect-artist
A proud and soaring thing
The organization man
Make the land pay
An American invention
The poet in overalls
To scrape the sky
Equivalent to war
A three-way race
Interlude : Oxygen to the fire
Part two.
Call it a "Vertex"
A monument to the future
The prize of the race
The butterfly and its cocoon
Crash
Pharaoh against Pharaoh
Aladdin's Genii and paper fights
The chase into the sky
Excelsior
Epilogue : Spirit--not steel and stone
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New York City in the Roaring Twenties, a battle between America's most creative and most ambitious archtitects, the race to build the world's tallest skyscraper. In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce rivalry was born. Two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance (former friends and successful partners, but now bitter adversaries), set out to imprint their individual marks on the greatest canvas in the world -- the rapidly evolving skyline of New York City. Each man desired to build the city's tallest building. Each would stop at nothing to outdo his rival. - Jacket flap.
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