City of Ambition: Fdr, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York

by Mason B. Williams

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City of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, this is a case study in creative political leadership in the midst of a devastating depression. Roosevelt and La Guardia were an odd couple: patrician president and immigrant mayor, fireside chat and tabloid cartoon, pragmatic Democrat and reform Republican...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0393066916

ISBN13:9780393066913

Release Date:May 2013

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:512 Pages

Weight:2.00 lbs.

Dimensions:1.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"

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