"The Golden Gate Bridge still stands, shepherding cars and bicycles and pedestrians into San Francisco, but the dream that once built it and so many other wonders lies in shambles. The state’s fiscal troubles, and its political gridlock, practically ensure that there will be no more works of practical art like the Golden Gate Bridge in the foreseeable future. Without the California Dream, can there be a California?"
Saul Austerlitz in The New Republic reviews Kevin Starr’s Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America’s Greatest Bridge.
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