Why read High Rise?

Book cover of High Rise: How 1000 Men and Women Worked around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper

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Chronicles the money, art, passion, and politics behind the design and construction of a skyscraper

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Jason M. Barr

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I came of age in the 1980s. It was the time when I first discovered my love of New York. It was also a time when America was in the heady throws—partially fueled by cocaine—of an economic and real estate boom. More skyscrapers were erected in Gotham than in any other period, even more than during the Roaring Twenties. It was a time when every developer thought that if they bought a well-located lot, they could turn dirt into gold by building a skyscraper—a post-modernist one at that.

Jerry Adler’s book follows the up and down fortunes of the young…

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