Annotated Bibliography
Most books about the making of important projects are told from the third person, typically with a journalist, and not a maker, holding the pen. Often it's clear they traded their sharpest words to get access to write about the project in the first place. Good, honest books about how things are made are hard to find. Over my career, I'd always wanted to see a book of this genre written by someone who had worked on projects of that kind themselves and could report honestly about what they experienced, as either an observer or a participant. When I realized I had a chance to write that book, I studied the journalistic forms of project reporting and first-person narrative.
Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine (Back Bay Books, ...
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