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BUILDING THE EMPIRE STATE

A rediscovered 1930s notebook charts the construction of the Empire State Building.

Edited by Carol Willis, with introductory essays by Carol Willis and Donald Friedman, Building the Empire State reproduces the unique rediscovered notebook of the skyscraper's general contractors, Starret Brothers and Eken. Says Karl Sabbagh in the (London) Times, "Packaged in a handsome volume, annotated intelligently and accompanied by two excellent essays and original site photographs, [Building the Empire State] is instructive, interesting, and entertaining."