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City of ambition : FDR, La Guardia, and the making of modern New York / Mason B. Williams.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection F128.5 .W73 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Mason B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depressions.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- History.
- New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1898-1951.
- Politics and government.
- New Deal, 1933-1939--New York (State)--New York.
- Depressions--1929--New York (State)--New York.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947.
- La Guardia, Fiorello H.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 494 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton, [2013]
- 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."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-473) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Hagen fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780393066913
- 0393066916
- OCLC:
- 811599488
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