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

Williams, Mason B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393066916 ISBN 13: 9780393066913

Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Mason B. Williams is a historian specializing in urban politics with degrees from Columbia University and Princeton University. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. This is his first book.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: W W NORTON & CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393066916
• ISBN 13: 9780393066913
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 494
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