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

by Mason B. Williams

Book Overview

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"