Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and the James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His numerous books include American Chartres: Buffalo's Waterfront Grain Elevators; The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories, Second Edition; Ways of the Hand: A Photographer's Memoir; and Voices from Death Row, Second Edition (with Diane Christian), all published by SUNY Press. He lives in Buffalo, New York.

• Acknowledgment and SourcesChronologyPart I: The Life and Death of the Great Northern Grain Elevator, 1897–2023 1. A Fierce Wind2. Buffalo and Its Grain Elevators3. Buffalo's Architecture4. The Great Northern5. After the Fall6. The Fire Commissioner's Fears7. The Mayor Waffles8. Parsing the President (of ADM)9. Before the Bar10. Two Courtly Matters11. Four Red Herrings12. Reason13. If14. What Paul McDonnell Said15. Utility16. Some Things I Heard17. Me18. What the Great Northern SaidPart II: Photographs PlatesPart III: Documents HAER Report text and drawingsADM Submission to Commissioner James Comerford, Dec. 15, 2021 (not exhibits)Commissioner James Comerford: Great Northern Condemnation Dec. 17, 2021Rep. Brian Higgins to ADM president Juan Luciano, Dec 13, 2021Anne Dafchik, President, AIA Buffalo/WNY, to Mayor Byron Brown, Dec. 16, 2021Mayor Byron Brown to ADM President Juan Luciano, Dec. 23, 2021New York AIA President Paul McDonnell to Mayor Byron Brown, January 9, 2022, with key graphic documentation from HAER Report and other sources.Campaign for Greater Buffalo graphic showing vertical beam supports of the Great NorthernIndex

"Bruce Jackson's Great Northern is stunning, both as a work of photography and as an indictment of the public trust gone missing in an American city. The text provides the context for the truth that the photographs reveal: An imposing and beautiful work of nineteenth century engineering was working just as designed and built well into the twenty-first century. Airtight, watertight, resting in a frame of massive steel columns, beams, and trusses—the building was never going to fall down of its own, or nature's, accord. Only venal men could cause that. Over a fall, a winter, and part of a spring, the falsity of the justifications for destruction of this American landmark was painfully evident to anyone who cared to bear witness. Many did. Bruce Jackson has perhaps done it best." — Tim Tielman, Director, The Campaign for Greater Buffalo History, Architecture & Culture