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Often described as the greatest city in the world, New York is one of the iconic cities of the world. Yet much of its architecture and culture which so defines the city we know today only came into being in the 1930s, in what was perhaps the most significant decade in the city's 400 year history.
Jules Stewart shows how, after the roaring twenties, the catastrophic Wall Street Crash and ensuing Depression, New York rose from the ashes and underwent an architectural, economic, social and creative renaissance under the leadership of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. After seizing power, he declared war on the mafia mobs running vast swathes of the city, attacked political corruption and kick-started the economy through a variety of construction and infrastructure projects. At the same time, a cultural revolution was underway as the jazz age and the Harlem Renaissance took hold. From the Empire State Building to the Pastrami Sandwich and the Cotton Club, Gotham Rising tells the story of when the city we know today came of age.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Amor Towles
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
2. The Little Flower and Goliath
3. Trouble in the streets
4. 'I Can't Figger What Dis City is Comin' To'
5. All That Jazz
6. Gotham Gets a Facelift
7. The Thing about Skyscrapers
8. Seventy-Seventh Floor, Please
9. Anything You Can Do
10. You're the Top
11. They All Laughed at Rockefeller Center
12. Village Life
13. Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free
Notes
Bibliography
Index
