This bridge will not be gray
This bridge will not be gray by Dave Eggers is a 2015 Fiction & Literature book written by TED speaker Dave Eggers, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "My wish: Once Upon a School" (2008), 1.8M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 7 years after the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 6th of 8 books by Dave Eggers on Books Worth Reading (2000–2018), by publication year.
- Edition: Chronicle Books, 2015 · 104 pages
The paired TED talk
My wish: Once Upon a School (2008), the TED talk by Dave Eggers.
From the publisher
The Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous bridge in the world. It is also, not entirely coincidentally, the world's only bright-orange bridge. But it wasn't supposed to be that way. In this book, fellow bridge-lovers Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols tell the story of how it happened - how a bridge that some people wanted to be red and white, and some people wanted to be yellow and black, and most people wanted simply to be gray, instead became, thanks to the vision and stick-to-itiveness of a few peculiar architects, one of the most memorable man-made objects ever created