City of ambition : FDR, La Guardia, and the making of modern New York /
Williams, Mason B.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-473) and index.
I. Foundations -- Beginnings -- A season in the wilderness -- The deluge -- II. The New Deal -- "Jobs is the cry" -- The New Deal's "lost legacy" -- From fusion to confusion -- New dealer for the duration -- III. War and postwar -- The local politics of foreign policy -- The battle of New York -- "I hope others will follow New York's example."
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945.
La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947.
New Deal, 1933-1939
Depressions