Informed by unprecedented access to previously unavailable private papers, documents, family memorabilia, and photographs, this volume profiles the colorful mayor and the city he governed during its golden era

Fiorello H. LA Guardia and the Making of Modern New York

Biographies & Memoirs

Kessner, Thomas

Leaders & Notable People

McGraw=Hill

Informed by unprecedented access to previously unavailable private papers, documents, family memorabilia, and photographs, this volume profiles the colorful mayor and the city he governed during its golden era

Fiorello H. LaGuardia

Regional U.S.

Penguin??Books

A comparative study of the upward mobility and the changing residential patterns of Italian and Jewish immigrants and the paths each took toward Americanization during their first twenty-five years in New York City

The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City 1880-1915

History

Americas

Today's Immigrants, Their Stories: A New Look at the Newest Americans

Caroli, Betty Boyd

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The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation (Pivotal Moments in American History)

In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris ushered in the modern age of commercial aviation. In The Flight of the Century, Thomas Kessner takes a fresh look at one of America's greatest moments, explaining how what was essentially a publicity stunt became a turning point in history. Kessner vividly recreates the flight itself and the euphoric reaction to it on both sides of the Atlantic, and argues that Lindbergh's amazing feat occurred just when the world--still struggling with the disillusionment of WWI--desperately needed a hero to restore a sense of optimism and innocence. Kessner also shows how new forms of mass media made Lindbergh into the most famous international celebrity of his time, casting him in the role of a humble yet dashing American hero of rural origins and traditional values. Much has been made of Lindbergh's personal integrity and his refusal to cash in on his fame, but Kessner reveals that Lindbergh was closely allied with, and managed by, a group of powerful businessmen--Harry Guggenheim, Dwight Morrow, and Henry Breckenridge chief among them--who sought to exploit aviation for mass transport and massive profits. Their efforts paid off as commercial air traffic soared from 6,000 passengers in 1926 to 173,000 passengers in 1929. Kessner's book is the first to fully explore Lindbergh's central role in promoting the airline industry--the rise of which has influenced everything from where we live to how we wage war and do business.

Historical

Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900

Describes the emergence of post-Civil War New York City, as it evolved from a port city to metropolis via the birth of capitalism, and how such moguls as Rockefeller, Carnegie, and J. P. Morgan helped define the foundation of twentieth-century financial institutions. By the author of Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York.

Business & Money

Biography & History

Simon&Schuster

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, New York City was an undistinguished town, competing with Philadelphia and Boston to be America's dominant port city. Just two generations later, it had built itself into the country's powerhouse center of trade and finance, rivaled only by London as financial capital of the world. In Capital City, Thomas Kessner tells the story of this remarkable transformation. With the advantages of its famous harbor and the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, New York became the chief commercial center for the growing nation. As the shipping industry prospered, capital accumulated, and a growing banking center emerged, New York went on to finance the Union cause during the Civil War, open the West to development, and consolidate the national railroad system. The city's energy and opportunity attracted ambitious men from all over the country whose names became synonymous with big business: Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan. New York's banks set the interest rates for the nation, its stock exchange fixed the price of securities, its investors transformed American business from family-owned enterprises into modern corporations, and its growing political clout catapulted public figures, such as Samuel Tilden and Teddy Roosevelt, onto the national stage. Combining political and urban history with a colorful cast of characters, Capital City chronicles how Gotham's Gilded Age reshaped the metropolis and the nation as it molded our present-day economy.

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Fiorello H. LA Guardia and the Making of Modern New York

Fiorello H. LaGuardia

The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City

The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City 1880-1915

Today's Immigrants, Their Stories: A New Look at the Newest Americans

Today's Immigrants, Their Stories: A New Look at the Newest Americans

The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation (Pivotal Moments in American History)

The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation (Pivotal Moments in American History)

Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900

Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900