With that title, we're going to expect this to be a tale of engineering, of some disaster that threatened the physical structure and the ways that scientific knowledge allowed people to shore up the building. Instead, we get a tale of social engineering. This is really more about history and people than it is about science. It's a tale of the plan to tear down the Tower and how Eiffel used scientific exploration to make in indispensable. There's some subtle messaging here about what the public values and how you can twist that to suit your purposes. For the average young reader, though, this is primarily an unknown story in the history of a well known structure. Well illustrated and economical with text.
Advanced Reader Copy provided by NetGalley
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