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Other Works by Michael Aaron Rockland
Nonfiction
Sarmiento’s Travels in the United States in 1847 (1970)
America in the Fifties and Sixties: Julian Marias on the United States
(editor) (1972)
The American Jewish Experience in Literature (1975)
Homes on Wheels (1980)
Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike (co-authored with
Angus Kress Gillespie) (1989)
Snowshoeing Through Sewers (1994)
What’s American About American Things? (1996)
Popular Culture: Or Why Study “Trash”? (1999)
The Jews of New Jersey: A Pictorial History (co-authored with
Patricia M. Ard) (2001)
Fiction
A Bliss Case (1989)
Screenplay
Three Days on Big City Waters (co-authored with Charles Woolfolk)
(1974)
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eWashingtonBridge
Poetry in Steel
Michael Aaron Rockland
Rivergate Books
An imprint of Rutgers University Press
New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rockland, Michael Aaron.
The e Washington Bridge : poetry in steel / Michael Aaron Rockland.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–8135–4375–8 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. e Washington Bridge (New York, .) 2. Bridges—New York (State)—
New York—Design and construction—History. I. Title.
2008
'3097471—dc22
2008000897
A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British
Library.
Title page photograph courtesy of the Port Authority.
Copyright © 2008 by Michael Aaron Rockland
All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means,
electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without
written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press,
100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue