Volume 4, Number 12 · July 15, 1965
The Bridge
By Alfred Kazin
Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol
by Alan Trachtenberg
Oxford, 182 pp., $5.75
As a people, Americans have been absorbed in 'making it,' in their own success story, in the making of Americans. To be an American is itself a career, as so many Americans, old stock as well as new, have testified. We are a legend to ourselves, and though the rest of the world has believed in this legend and has contributed to it, only we have lived it with the absorption that makes it necessary for us constantly to note our progress.
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