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    Skywalkers: Mohawk Ironworkers Build the City

    By David Weitzman

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    Skyscrapers define the American city. Through a narrative text and gorgeous historical photographs, Skywalkers by David Weitzman explores Native American history and the evolution of structural engineering and architecture, illuminating the Mohawk ironworkers who risked their lives to build our cities and their lasting impact on our urban landscape.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 29, 2014
    ISBN9781466869813
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    Skywalkers: Mohawk Ironworkers Build the City
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    David Weitzman

    DAVID WEITZMAN is the author and illustrator of more than a dozen books for children on America's industrial and technical history. His books include Skywalkers: Mohawk Ironworkers Build the City.

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    • 3/5
      I never had any idea that Mohawk Indians were an instrumental part of raising this country's bridges and skylines. It would have been helpful to have diagrams that illustrated the various key parts of the bridges and buildings that the author discusses. Otherwise, it's a revealing story of a little known aspect of American history.
    • 2/5
      Skywalkers: Mohawk Ironworkers Build the City by David Weitzman is a history of the building of the skyscrapers in eastern Canada and Manhattan. Weitzman shows how the skills used for building long houses translated into walking the beams needed for building skyscrapers and bridges.I have mixed feelings about this book.It is full of excellent archival photographs and quotes from presumably primary sources. It outlines a piece of history that, at least in my west coast education, is over looked in the brief discussions of the building of our modern cities, which began about 120 years ago. The book also has a lengthy bibliography that I'd like to peruse for further reading.The text, as I mentioned, relies heavily on long quotations from other source material. These quotations are not cited on the same page, so linking up the source to the material is difficult. This lack of citation smacks of laziness and as an example to the upper elementary students reading the book, who will be at the age where they are learning how to write reports the book is also a bad example of proper citation.
    • 5/5
      Read how many of our skyscrapers and bridges were built and the incredibly brave men who built them. Fascinating!
    • 5/5
      I really liked this book, I learned a lot about the Mohawk ironworkers, history and contemporary events. Easy to read and it gave me the shivers to see the workers walking the girders hundreds of feet in the air.