In previous books, Henry Petroski has examined inanimate objects such as the pencil and the bookshelf. In his latest, he takes a look at himself.
PAPERBOY: CONFESSIONS OF A FUTURE ENGINEER By HENRY PETROSKI
ALFRED A. KNOPF, 364 Pp. $25
REVIEWED BY WRAY HERBERT
People are born to run and born to be wild. There are natural-born athletes and natural-born politicians. Even natural-born killers.
But natural-born civil engineers? Born to construct?
Henry Petroski indeed believes he had an early, natural inclination to engineer the world-at least his small comer of it-and there is no question that he views the world through a different lens than …
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