London Bridge in America

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8.99
book_author_name: 
Travis Elborough
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Paperback
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Vintage Publishing
published_date: 
06/02/2014
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9780099565765
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Books > History > Historical events & topics > Social & cultural history
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Travis Elborough|Paperback|Vintage Publishing|06/02/2014
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9780099565765
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In 1968 the world's largest antique went to America. But how do you transport a 130-year-old bridge 3,000 miles?And why did Robert P. McCulloch, a multimillionaire oil baron and chainsaw-manufacturing king, buy it?Why did he ship it to a waterless patch of the Arizonan desert?Did he even get the right bridge? To answer these questions, it's necessary to meet a peculiar cast.Fleet Street shysters * Revolutionary Radicals * Frock-coated industrialists * Disneyland designers * Thames dockers * Guinness Book of Records officials * The odd Lord Mayor * Bridge-building priests * Gun-toting U.S. sheriffs * An Apache Indian or two And a fraudster whose greatest trick was to convince the world he ever existedRoll up, then, for the story of one of the strangest events in Anglo-American relations. Curious, clever and sharp, this is history to delight in.

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