Higher A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City

"While this story is most often told as a sentimental paean to 'progress' rather than a bitter corporate feud, Bascomb gives his tale a fresh sense of capitalist drama in his evocation of the nascent worlds of skyscraper engineering, architecture and construction-and real estate speculation with returns projected at 10%...He imbues the former three with some terrific detail...that gives context to the players and incidental characters,..."Bascomb, Neal is the author of 'Higher A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City', published 2003 under ISBN 9780385506601 and ISBN 0385506600.