# So Others Might Live

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- Book: [So Others Might Live](https://www.bookquiver.com/terry-golway/so-others-might-live) ([So Others Might Live.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/terry-golway/so-others-might-live.md))
- Authors: [Terry Golway](https://www.bookquiver.com/terry-golway)
- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6502-741-5
- Published: 2003-10-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the first history of the New York Fire Department- FDNY- in over sixty years, journalist Terry Golway weaves together stories of heroic firefighters and extraordinary fires to create a moving and original account of New York as seen through the eyes and actions of the city's firefighters. From the eighteenth century's most ambitious public-works project- the building of aqueducts from upstate to help control fires- to firefighter-turned-politician Boss Tweed's backroom politics, fire and firefighters have played an integral part in the life of New York. So Others Might Live also offers a new view of the building of modern urban America and the social turbulence of New York from the 1700s to the present day.