Great Projects: The Building of America . Interviews

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The Great Projects filmmakers interviewed people with intimate knowledge of the engineers, the projects and the times that produced them. Access the full transcripts below.

			From "A Tale of Two Rivers": Erma Godbey Godbey is wife of a Hoover Dam builder Read full interview Download in PDF format				From "A Tale of Two Rivers": John M. Barry Barry is author of Rising Tide Read full interview Download in PDF format
			From "Electric Nation": Harold Platt Platt is a history professor at Loyola University Chicago Read full interview Download in PDF format				From "Electric Nation": Paul Israel Israel is Editor of Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers and co-author of Edison's Electric Light Read full interview Download in PDF format
			From "Bridging New York": David Billington Billington is a professor of civil engineering at Princeton Read full interview Download in PDF format				From "Bridging New York": Gay Talese Talese is a former New York Times writer and author of The Bridge Read full interview Download in PDF format
			From "The Big Dig": David Luberoff Luberoff is co-author of Mega-Project and a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School Read full interview Download in PDF format				From "The Big Dig": Fred Salvucci Salvucci is a senior lecturer at MIT and is a former Massachussetts Secretary of Transportation Read full interview Download in PDF format

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