Jeff's book Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition is the first-ever biography of the wrecking trade, and a riveting, character-filled narrative of how lowly demolition grew to become a multibillion-dollar business, an extreme spectator sport, and a touchstone for what we value, what we disdain, who we were, and what we wish to become.
Rubble rides the wrecking ball through centuries of firehooks and skull crackers, barmen and implosionists. From powder-kegged old London to Las Vegas, this book rummages through the ruins and surveys the blasts that—for better and for worse—shape our cities and our souls.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A live-wire, multilevel study...the demolition of buildings inspires complex emotions—shock, horror, even awe—and those responses are well worth thinking about."
Time Out New York
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