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City of ambition : FDR, La Guardia, and the making of modern New York / Mason B. Williams.
- Title
- City of ambition : FDR, La Guardia, and the making of modern New York / Mason B. Williams.
- Author
- Williams, Mason B.
- Publication
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton, c2013.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 494 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Describes the revitalization of New York during the Great Depression as President Roosevelt and Mayor LaGuardia worked together to build parks, bridges, and schools and put people to work by channeling federal resources into cities and counties.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-473) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foundations. Beginnings ; A season in the wilderness ; The deluge -- The New Deal. "Jobs is the cry" ; The New Deal's "lost legacy" ; From fusion to confusion ; New dealer for the duration -- War and postwar. The local politics of foreign policy ; The battle of New York ; "I hope others will follow New York's example."
- ISBN
- 9780393066913 (hardcover)
- 0393066916 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- ^^2013004481
- OCLC
- 811599488
- SCSB-12830054
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library