Author: WILLIAMS, MASON B
Title: City of ambition : FDR, La Guardia, and the making of modern New York / Mason B. Williams
Description: New York : W.W. Norton & Company 2013. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; xvii. 494 pages. 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 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. Subjects; Roosevelt. Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945. La Guardia. Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry) 1882-1947. New Deal. 1933-1939 — New York (State) — New York. Depressions — 1929 — New York (State) — New York. New York (N.Y.) — History — 1898-1951. ISBN: 0393066916. Weight in Kg appr.:

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