Writer Gay Talese interviews Bob Walsh, one of the ironworkers who built the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the country.

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Music in this episode:

"John Stockton Slow Drag" by Chris Zabriskie from the album Undercover Vampire Policeman

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