Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator
“Bernard’s passion for research is as impressive as the ease with which he—elevator-like—moves between the disciplines of literature, art history, sociology, and psychology.”-Der Spiegel,“The elevator, which today seems so boring, was once a vehicle of change of compelling power. Whoever reads this book will view the world’s elevators with different eyes.”-Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,"Andreas Bernard, a German newspaper editor, has written a history of the now-ubiquitous lift.  Elevators made tall buildings, and thus modern urban life, possible...the anecdotes and insights are captivating."-,The Economist"The elevator did more than make New York the city of skyscrapers, it changed the way we live, as German newspaper editor Andreas Bernard explains inLifted."-Stephen Lynch,New York Post"In a new book, 'Lifted,' German journalist and cultural studies professor Andreas Bernard zeroes in on this experience, tracing mankind’s relationship to the elevator back to its origins and finding that it has never been a totally comfortable one. 'After 150 years, we are still not used to it,' Bernard said. 'We still have not exactly learned to cope with this...mixture of intimacy and anonymity.' That mixture, according to Bernard, sets the elevator ride apart from just about every other situation we find ourselves in as we go about our lives."-Leon Neyfakh,The Boston Globe