City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York

"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 p...