Gay Talese Wishes the Verrazano a Happy 50th

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 17, 2014

Gay Talese, journalist and author of The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (Bloomsbury USA, 2014), revisits the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on its 50th anniversary.

→Events:  Gay Talese will talk about The Bridge on 11/19 7PM at The Strand 828 Broadway ⋅ on 11/20 at 6:30 at the Museum of the City of New York ⋅ and on 11/22 at 4PM at the Barnes & Noble on Staten Island 2245 Richmond Street

Hear archival audio from the opening of the bridge 50 years ago:

 

 

 

 

  

 

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