About the Author

DONALD E. WOLF worked in engineering for approximately forty years before switching to writing about it. He is the author of Big Dams and Other Dreams and Turner's First Century.

Reviews

"In Crossing the Hudson, Donald E. Wolf shows with a fine eye for detail how the engineering accomplishments embodied in bridges and tunnels are inseparably linked to the larger social and political context in which they are conceived and built. This extremely well written book not only provides revealing insights into the history of the Hudson River, its environs, and their people and infrastructure, but also demonstraters in case after case how interesting the stories surrounding them can be." - Henry Petroski, Duke University, and author of Engineers of Dreams"