Skyscraper Of A Man

Author : Michael Bowe
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1532820267

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Skyscraper of a Man by Michael Bowe Pdf

Skyscraper of a Man is a truly American story. Rooted in the homogenous suburbs of the 1970s, the novel explores the American propensity to pursue great ambitions, regardless of upbringing, that can result in lives that are larger than life. The four main characters live such lives, achieving great success in their chosen pursuits while dealing with the personal challenges and choices that come with success. The main character, Ben Matthews, the son of an avid Revolutionary War buff, believes deeply in America, its founding principles, and -by the people, for the people- government. Inspired by the grand ideals of the Founding Fathers, Ben starts a newspaper and runs for political office, efforts aimed at righting a nation he perceives as falling short of its potential and promise. His three closest friends, a writer who is also his business partner, a television news anchorwoman who was his lover, and a former college football star, play contributing roles in his rise to national prominence. In the end, Ben learns that grand ideals are elusive, difficult to maintain, and better left to the perfect among us. The San Francisco Book Review awarded Skyscraper of a Man 5 out of 5 stars and provided the following review: -Bowe pens a poignant tale... [He] fashions a fictional, yet realistic, setting with a well-defined cast that mimics American life... Unique to Bowe's plot is how he parallels the growth of the four [main characters] to the evolution of skyscrapers... A balanced combination of fact, fiction, engaging dialogue, and a flurry of twists and turns, Skyscraper of a Man is a stunning and inimitable debut with Silver Screen potential.-

Author : Michael Bowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1794682155

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Skyscraper of a Man by Michael Bowe Pdf

Skyscraper of a Man is a truly American story. Rooted in the homogenous suburbs of the 1970s, the novel explores the American propensity to pursue great ambitions, regardless of upbringing, that can result in lives that are larger than life. The four main characters meet at college and forge such lives, each achieving remarkable success in their chosen pursuits. The main character, Benjamin Matthews, the son of a printer and avid Revolutionary War buff, believes deeply in America, its founding principles, and "by the people, for the people" government. Inspired by the grand ideals of the Founding Fathers, Ben starts a newspaper and runs for political office, efforts aimed at righting a nation he sees as falling short of its potential and promise. His three college friends, a writer who is also his business partner, a news anchorwoman who was his lover, and a former college football star, play roles in his rise to national prominence. In the end, Ben learns that grand ideals are elusive, hard to maintain, and better left to the perfect among us.

Author : Adrienne Brown
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421423838

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The Black Skyscraper by Adrienne Brown Pdf

A highly interdisciplinary work, The Black Skyscraper reclaims the influence of race on modern architectural design as well as the less-well-understood effects these designs had on the experience and perception of race.

Author : Faith Baldwin
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558617872

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Skyscraper by Faith Baldwin Pdf

Lynn is an ambitious young woman who loves her job in the gleaming new Manhattan skyscraper. Soon, Lynn also loves Tom, the young clerk down the hall. They are so in love that if they don’t get married, something improper is bound to happen. But her company has a strict new policy: Any woman who marries will be immediately fired. First published in 1931—the same year the Empire State Building opened its doors—Skyscraper marks the advent of a new kind of romance plot, and Lynn a new kind of heroine. Lynn is facing choices that will determine the course of the rest of her life, but rather than just choose between suitors, Lynn and other working girls like her must decide whether to abandon their careers—or abandon their men. They can’t have both—or can they? Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. Enjoy the series: Bedelia; Bunny Lake Is Missing; By Cecile; The G-String Murders; The Girls in 3-B; Laura; The Man Who Loved His Wife; Mother Finds a Body; Now, Voyager; Return to Lesbos; Skyscraper; Stranger on Lesbos; Stella Dallas; Women's Barracks.

Author : Joseph J. Korom
Publisher : Branden Books
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0828321884

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The American Skyscraper, 1850-1940 by Joseph J. Korom Pdf

The skyscraper is an American invention that has captured the public's imagination for over a century. The tall building is wholly manmade and borne in the minds of those with both slide rules and computers. This is the story of the skyscraper's rise and the recognition of those individuals who contributed to its development. This volume is unique; its approach, information, and images are fresh and telling. The text examines America's first tall buildings -- the result of twelve years of in-depth research by an accomplished and published architect and architectural historian. Over 300 compelling photographs, charts, and notes make this the ultimate tool of reference for this subject. Biographies woven throughout with period norms, politics and lifestyles help to place featured skyscrapers in context. Quite simply, there is no book like this. The text, carefully and insightfully written, is clear, concise, and easily digestible, the text being the product of well-documented original research written in an informative tone. The American Skyscraper 1850-1940: A Celebration of Height is a richly documented journey of a fascinating topic, and it promises to be a superb addition to libraries, schools of architecture, students of architecture, and lovers of art.

Author : Merrill Schleier
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816642816

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Skyscraper Cinema by Merrill Schleier Pdf

From the silent era until the advent of the Cinemascope--the skyscraper as movie star. Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema's tall buildings have been variously represented as unbridled aspiration, dens of iniquity and eroticism, beacons of democracy, and well-oiled corporate machines. Considering their intriguing diversity, Merrill Schleier establishes and explains the impact of actual skyscrapers on America's ideologies about work, leisure, romance, sexual identity, and politics as seen in Hollywood movies.

Author : Jerry Adler
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002281157

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High Rise by Jerry Adler Pdf

Sweat and genius of the men and women who possessed them. How did it happen? High Rise is the unprecedented account of how money, art, passion, politics, and machinery come together to put a building in the ground, and in the skyline of the world's most fascinating, complex, and impossible city. Jerry Adler, a veteran journalist, saw it all happen, and through him we come to know the astonishing cast of characters who conceived and built it: the most famous architects,

Author : Frederick Cookinham
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781491794067

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Man in the Place of the Gods by Frederick Cookinham Pdf

WHO SAYS SECULAR PEOPLE CANT BE SPIRITUAL? What do cities mean to you? Excitement? Dreams and goals? Glamor? Escape? Danger? Romance? Artistically planned parks, zoos and museums? Shopping? Ohmygod skyscrapers and bridges? Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue? From Aristotle to Ayn Rand, writers have analyzed and gloried in cities as the greatest expression of Man the rational builder and inventor. Architecture, especially, makes the city the temple of Rational Man. Frederick Cookinham is a New York City tour guide, specializing in New Yorks colonial and Revolutionary history and in AYN RANDS NEW YORK. In THE AGE OF RAND Cookinham taught you to see the landscape through history glasses. Now learn to see cities through temple glasses. See the spiritual in the secular! Be uplifted by the sight of Mans achievements. Make the city your temple to Mans mind, and dont be afraid to get all Ayn Rand about it. Appreciate better the deeper meanings behind the concrete (and steel!) facts of where you live. Analysis and insight on Ayn Rands life and work, embedded in a guide to New Yorks architecture and public art, wrapped in a paean to cities: how they work and what they mean to us. Victor Niederhoffer, NYC Junto

Author : Benjamin Flowers
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812202601

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Skyscraper by Benjamin Flowers Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Nowhere in the world is there a greater concentration of significant skyscrapers than in New York City. And though this iconographic American building style has roots in Chicago, New York is where it has grown into such a powerful reflection of American commerce and culture. In Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century, Benjamin Flowers explores the role of culture and ideology in shaping the construction of skyscrapers and the way wealth and power have operated to reshape the urban landscape. Flowers narrates this modern tale by closely examining the creation and reception of three significant sites: the Empire State Building, the Seagram Building, and the World Trade Center. He demonstrates how architects and their clients employed a diverse range of modernist styles to engage with and influence broader cultural themes in American society: immigration, the Cold War, and the rise of American global capitalism. Skyscraper explores the various wider meanings associated with this architectural form as well as contemporary reactions to it across the critical spectrum. Employing a broad array of archival sources, such as corporate records, architects' papers, newspaper ads, and political cartoons, Flowers examines the personal, political, cultural, and economic agendas that motivate architects and their clients to build ever higher. He depicts the American saga of commerce, wealth, and power in the twentieth century through their most visible symbol, the skyscraper.

Author : Eric Höweler
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015058090393

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Skyscraper by Eric Höweler Pdf

No building type captures the imagination as powerfully as the skyscraper. Since its unveiling in New York and Chicago over 100 years ago, the skyscraper has transformed the skyline of every major city. Eric Höweler has collected and organized over seventy skyscraper designs from the world's leading architects. The author's penetrating essays on the cultural, technological, and social factors governing skyscraper design serve as general introductions to thematic groupings of the best contemporary skyscrapers from the last decade. The skyscraper as an icon, monument, urban instrument, and workplace continues to emerge as a powerful site and symbol for collective aspirations and imaginings. This richly illustrated volume (over 200 color photographs) explores skyscraper designs of the recent past and near future, and examines how this dominant structure shapes our existence. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Adrienne Brown
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421423845

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The Black Skyscraper by Adrienne Brown Pdf

How did writers and artists view the intersection of architecture and race in the modernist era? Winner of the MSA First Book Prize of the Modernist Studies Association With the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Tall buildings emerged in growing cities to house and manage the large and racially diverse populations of migrants and immigrants flocking to their centers following Reconstruction. Beginning with Chicago's early 10-story towers and concluding with the 1931 erection of the 102-story Empire State Building, Adrienne Brown's The Black Skyscraper provides a detailed account of how scale and proximity shape our understanding of race. Over the next half-century, as city skylines grew, American writers imagined the new urban backdrop as an obstacle to racial differentiation. Examining works produced by writers, painters, architects, and laborers who grappled with the early skyscraper's outsized and disorienting dimensions, Brown explores this architecture's effects on how race was seen, read, and sensed at the turn of the twentieth century. In lesser-known works of apocalyptic science fiction, light romance, and Jazz Age melodrama, as well as in more canonical works by W. E. B. Du Bois, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aaron Douglas, and Nella Larsen, the skyscraper mediates the process of seeing and being seen as a racialized subject. From its distancing apex—reducing bodies to specks—to the shadowy mega-blocks it formed at street level, the skyscraper called attention, Brown argues, to the malleable nature of perception. A highly interdisciplinary work, The Black Skyscraper reclaims the influence of race on modern architectural design as well as the less-well-understood effects these designs had on the experience and perception of race.

Author : Jim Rasenberger
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780061746758

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High Steel by Jim Rasenberger Pdf

A powerful first-hand account of the many generations and ethnic groups of men who have built America's skyscrapers. From the early days of steel construction in Chicago, through the great boom years of New York city ironwork, and up through the present, High Steel follows the trajectory of careers inextricably linked to both great accomplishment and catastrophic disaster. The personal stories reveal the lives of ironworkers and the dangers they face as they walk across the windswept, swaying summits of tomorrow's skyscrapers, balanced on steel girders sometimes only six inches wide. Rasenberger explores both the greatest accomplishments of ironwork—the vaulting bridges and towers that define America's skyline—and the deadliest disasters, such as the Quebec Bridge Collapse of 1907, when 75 ironworkers, including 33 Mohawk Indians, fell to their deaths. High Steel is an accessible, thrilling, and vertiginous portrait of the lives of some of our most brave yet unrecognized men.

Author : Lynn Curlee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000060625816

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Skyscraper by Lynn Curlee Pdf

Examines the history of the design of tall buildings.

Author : Col. W. A. Starrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243665172

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Skyscrapers and the Men Who Build Them by Col. W. A. Starrett Pdf

Author : William Aiken Starrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Architecture
ISBN : WISC:89057249641

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Skyscrapers and the Men who Build Them by William Aiken Starrett Pdf