Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
Written by Neal Bascomb
Narrated by Richard Davidson
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Neal Bascomb
NEAL BASCOMB is the national award–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Winter Fortress, Hunting Eichmann, The Perfect Mile,Higher, The Nazi Hunters, and Red Mutiny, among others. A former international journalist, he is a widely recognized speaker on the subject of war and has appeared in a number of documentaries. He lives in Philadelphia. For more information, visit http://nealbascomb.com or find him on Twitter at @nealbascomb.
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Reviews for Higher
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An entertaining look at the race for King of the Skies in New York in the late 20s and early 30s. From the backers to the architects to the men working on the buildings; a complete look at this era.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I was really looking forward to reading this, and the end result left me pretty disappointed. Providing insight into the era where building the "tallest building in the world" was something multiple builders could be pursuing at the same time, the book proved interesting. Secret deals, creating building techniques and outright deception were used to try to claim the highest building title from others while still under construction. The ploy used by the Chrysler Building was particularly entertaining. But what was missing from this analysis was the impact of the depression. The WPA wasn't even mentioned - although I understand it was a prime factor in the building of the Empire State Building - and the death of the race to the sky was only implied. I felt so much detail was put into so many other less critical areas, that it was unfortunate that he didn't give that same attention to what had to have had an impact on the construction industry for more than a decade.