Customer Reviews

High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline, 1881 to the Present

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Rasenberger brings awareness to the little known and aknowledged trade of Iron Workers. This is an excellent book for those who are in the trade and those who want a close to real life view of who Ironworkers are and what their life was and is like. The book gives a pretty accurate history of the trade going back to the early Bridgeman to the current International Associates of Bridge, Structrual, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers. Being a 3rd generation Iron Worker I found this a very pleasureable read and recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about what it is that we do as we build America on Beam at a time.

I am reading this book now and really enjoying it, but it is making me mad that there are no photos. You see the box for the photo, and the caption, but no image. There is no good reason for this - I've gotten lots of Kindle books that had photos. I'm rating the book low because nowhere in the description does it say the photos have been expunged, and I really think that is a BAD precedent to set!

all of the illustrations are blocked from view in the electronic version. this is a major shortcoming that should have been disclosed prior to purchase.

A good book for reading about the history and stories of the Local 40 Structural Ironworkers of NYC.