Mr. New York: The Autobiography of Grover A. Whalen

Someone has said that New York is not a city—it's a way of life. Few men who have won prominence have better exemplified this way of life, and the things that make the New Yorker what she is today, than Grover Whalen. Born in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, he became Rodman Wanamaker's right-hand man, Mayor Hylan's secretary and a City Commissioner, then Jimmy Walker's Police Commissioner, and New York's Host for 35 years and seven Mayors. The climax of his career undoubtedly was the 193...