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“The Empire State Building is one of the most iconic buildings ever built. Yet, many aspects of its construction have remained shrouded in myth and mystery. Glenn Kurtz brings to life, for the first time, the personal stories of the workers who erected the Empire State Building. In this important work, Kurtz gives us a view behind the curtain wall, documenting the lives and achievements of the unsung craftsmen who gave their blood, sweat, and tears to build the world’s tallest building. Men at Work is a riveting achievement!”—Jason M. Barr, author of Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers

""Capitalists build nothing. Workers build everything. Glenn Kurtz recovers the stories of the brave men who constructed the Empire State Building masterfully using Lewis Hine's famous photographs of them. A wonderful book for anyone who cares about the stories of real workers.""​ —Erik Loomis, author of A History of America in Ten Strikes “The Empire State Building is one of the most iconic buildings ever built. Yet, many aspects of its construction have remained shrouded in myth and mystery. Glenn Kurtz brings to life, for the first time, the personal stories of the workers who erected the Empire State Building. In this important work, Kurtz gives us a view behind the curtain wall, documenting the lives and achievements of the unsung craftsmen who gave their blood, sweat, and tears to build the world’s tallest building. Men at Work is a riveting achievement!”—Jason M. Barr, author of Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers

“The Empire State Building is one of the most iconic buildings ever built. Yet, many aspects of its construction have remained shrouded in myth and mystery. Glenn Kurtz brings to life, for the first time, the personal stories of the workers who erected the Empire State Building. In this important work, Kurtz gives us a view behind the curtain wall, documenting the lives and achievements of the unsung craftsmen who gave their blood, sweat, and tears to build the world’s tallest building. Men at Work is a riveting achievement!”—Jason M. Barr, author of Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers ""Capitalists build nothing. Workers build everything. Glenn Kurtz recovers the stories of the brave men who constructed the Empire State Building masterfully using Lewis Hine's famous photographs of them. A wonderful book for anyone who cares about the stories of real workers.""​ —Erik Loomis, author of A History of America in Ten Strikes

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GLENN KURTZ is the author of Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014), which was named a “Best Book of 2014” by the New Yorker, the Boston Globe, and National Public Radio. A documentary film, Three Minutes—A Lengthening, based on the book, was directed by Bianca Stigter, co-produced by Academy Award-winner Steve McQueen, and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter. After premiering at the Venice Film Festival in 2021, the film was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and received the inaugural Yad Vashem Award for Outstanding Holocaust Documentary. Glenn’s first book, Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music (Knopf, 2007), garnered enthusiastic reviews from the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. The recipient of a 2016-2017 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Glenn is a graduate of Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music and holds a PhD from Stanford University.

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