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It took much more than a clever engineer and a relentless promoter to build the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge effort ... He struggled to free himself from the tangles of the net underwater.

A native of San Jose, California, Amadeo Peter Giannini became a true booster of the San Francisco region and the financial guarantor of the Golden Gate Bridge. Born into a family of Italian ...