Abstract
The writer G. K. Chesterton rejected the axiom that a thing worth doing is worth doing well. On the contrary, he declared, a thing that is truly worth doing is worth doing badly. Chesterton had in mind the task of loving God and one's neighbor rather than building great bridges, or indeed, writing history. Henry Petroski begins his study with an equally arresting instruction: Imagine a world without bridges (p. 3). Certainly, it is difficult to envisage what life would be like in New York or San Francisco under such circum-
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