The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, the Schemers, and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch
By Jim Merkel
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The Gateway Arch is one of America's most distinctive and beloved national monuments. Much has been written about the Arch, but no book has captured the legend, lore, and spirit behind its conception and construction, until now. The Making of an Icon:The Dreamers, the Schemers, and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch compiles well-known, and rare, stories about the visionaries, finaglers, protesters, and fearless-but-skilled hands involved in an incredible undertaking that courted as muc…
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Art, Architecture & PhotographyPrint BooksHistoryAwardsPaperbackNonfictionArchitectureUnited States HistoryGeographic Locations - ArchitectureUnited States History - Midwestern RegionU.S.A. - Midwest & Great Plains ArchitectureMissouri - State & Local HistoryArchitecture->Missouri->Saint LouisSt. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Nonfiction of 2014Best Books of the Year 2014Best Books of the YearSt. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of 2014



