London Bridge in America: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing

A brilliantly entertaining look at just what happened when London Bridge was sold and shipped to America.

In 1968 the world’s largest antique went to America.

But how do you transport a 130-year-old bridge 3,000 miles?

And why did Robert P. McCulloch, a multimillionaire oil baron and chainsaw-manufacturing king, buy it?

Why did he ship it to a waterless patch of the Arizonan desert?

Did he even get the right bridge?

To answer these questions, it’s necessary to meet a peculiar cast.

Fleet Street shysters
Revolutionary Radicals
Frock-coated industrialists
Disneyland designers
Thames dockers
Guinness Book of Records officials
The odd Lord Mayor
Bridge-building priests
Gun-toting U.S. sheriffs
An Apache Indian or two

And a fraudster whose greatest trick was to convince the world he ever existed

Roll up, then, for the story of one of the strangest events in Anglo-American relations. Curious, clever and sharp, this is history to delight in.