City of Ambition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City of Ambition write by Mason B Williams. This book was released on 2014-06-24. City of Ambition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Fascinating. . . . Williams tells the story of La Guardia and Roosevelt with insight and elegance.”—Edward Glaeser, New York Times Book Review 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. But together, as leaders of America’s two largest governments in the depths of the Great Depression, they fashioned a route to recovery for the nation and the master plan for a great city. Roosevelt and his “Brain Trust”—shrewd, energetic advisors such as Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins—sought to fight the Depression by channeling federal resources through America’s cities and counties. La Guardia had replaced Tammany Hall cronies with policy experts, such as the imperious Robert Moses, who were committed to a strong public sector. The two leaders worked closely together. La Guardia had a direct line of communication with FDR and his staff, often visiting Washington carrying piles of blueprints. Roosevelt relied on the mayor as his link to the nation’s cities and their needs. The combination was potent. La Guardia’s Gotham became a laboratory for New Deal reform. Roosevelt’s New Deal transformed city initiatives into major programs such as the Works Progress Administration, which changed the physical face of the United States. Together they built parks, bridges, and schools; put the unemployed to work; and strengthened the Progressive vision of government as serving the public purpose. Today everyone knows the FDR Drive as a main route to La Guardia Airport. The intersection of steel and concrete speaks to a pair of dynamic leaders whose collaboration lifted a city and a nation. Here is their story.
City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York
City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York write by Mason B. Williams. This book was released on 2013-05-28. City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Fascinating. . . . Williams tells the story of La Guardia and Roosevelt with insight and elegance.”—Edward Glaeser, New York Times Book Review
City of Ambition
City of Ambition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City of Ambition write by Mason B. Williams. This book was released on 2013. City of Ambition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Capital City
Capital City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capital City write by Thomas Kessner. This book was released on 2004-04-07. Capital City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, New York City was an undistinguished town, competing with Philadelphia and Boston to be America's dominant port city. Just two generations later, it had built itself into the country's powerhouse center of trade and finance, rivaled only by London as financial capital of the world. In Capital City, Thomas Kessner tells the story of this remarkable transformation. With the advantages of its famous harbor and the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, New York became the chief commercial center for the growing nation. As the shipping industry prospered, capital accumulated, and a growing banking center emerged, New York went on to finance the Union cause during the Civil War, open the West to development, and consolidate the national railroad system. The city's energy and opportunity attracted ambitious men from all over the country whose names became synonymous with big business: Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan. New York's banks set the interest rates for the nation, its stock exchange fixed the price of securities, its investors transformed American business from family-owned enterprises into modern corporations, and its growing political clout catapulted public figures, such as Samuel Tilden and Teddy Roosevelt, onto the national stage. Combining political and urban history with a colorful cast of characters, Capital City chronicles how Gotham's Gilded Age reshaped the metropolis and the nation as it molded our present-day economy.
Battle for Bed-Stuy
Battle for Bed-Stuy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Battle for Bed-Stuy write by Michael Woodsworth. This book was released on 2016-06-06. Battle for Bed-Stuy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.
