Skyscraper Dreams: The Great Real Estate Dynasties of New York

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	Prologue: Public and Private Ceremonies	3
Part 1	Elements of the Dream
1	The Sixth Sense	29
2	The White City	45
3	Within the Pale	54
Part 2	Reaching for the Sky
4	Converging Streams	77
5	Horizontal to Vertical Monuments	93
6	Fathers and Sons	101
7	Grand Schemes	118
8	Metropolitan Square	137
9	The Hard Years	157
Part 3	Empire Building
10	Making Matches	173
11	Members of the Club	189
12	Learning to Love the Cow	203
13	Sizable and Dubious Pleasures	216
14	The Changing of the Guard	235
Part 4	The City and Its Symbols
15	1166 and All That	257
16	The Shadow of Default	271
17	The Great Leap Forward	294
18	Replacement Costs	314
	Epilogue: Waiting for Good Times	329
	Acknowledgments	339
	Index	341

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