The Napoleon of New York
Subtitle: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia
By: H. Paul Jeffers.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: La Guardia, Fiorello H. 1882-1947.; United States. Congress. House -- Biography.; Legislators -- United States -- Biography.; Mayors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.; New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1898-1951.; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Fiorello La Guardia was short of stature, but big of heart. This cigar-puffing, roly-poly mayor with a squeaky voice was affectionately nicknamed "The Little Flower" and "Hizzoner" by those who adored him.

Yet those who worked beside him and knew him best were witnesses to La Guardia's other side: a driven, headstrong, personally insecure figure, about whom Robert Moses once detected "omniscience and megalomania." The Napoleon of New York provides a fresh perspective of Fiorello La Guardia's life and mayorality. Here, author H.

Paul Jeffers takes a new spin on this beloved mayor by contrasting the public's benevolent image of him that has lasted through seven decades with a complex, paradoxical, and cunning politician who was as tough and unforgiving as the city he governed."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-384) and index.