Overview
Recalling the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, a "graceful leap over an unprecedented space," as narrator David Ogden Stiers calls it. The Golden Gate presented its engineers with a "magnificent" challenge of wind, fog and colliding currents, and they succeeded so magnificently that historian Kevin Starr, the State Librarian of California, likens it to "Hamlet" or a Beethoven symphony. This hour blends technology and poetry smoothly, as does the bridge. It is, sums up Starr, "a fusion of perfections."
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16 - 1New York (8): The Center of the World September 08, 2003 -
16 - 2Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (1): Revolution January 12, 2004 -
16 - 3Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2): Retreat January 13, 2004 -
16 - 4Citizen King January 19, 2004 -
16 - 5Remember the Alamo February 02, 2004 -
16 - 6Tupperware! February 09, 2004 -
16 - 7Emma Goldman April 12, 2004 -
16 - 8Patriots Day April 19, 2004 -
16 - 9Golden Gate Bridge May 03, 2004
