Title: Good guys, wise guys, and putting up buildings
Description: "Starting in the Navy Seabees at the end of WWII, Samuel C. Florman made his way as a general contractor in New York City through the period of explosive development, private exuberance and the historic growth of publicly supported housing--all amidst the rise of the notorious Mafia families, and evolution of the Civil Rights Movement. His storied career brought him into contact with a variety of personalities: politicians and civil servants, developers and technocrats, saintly do-gooders, and corrupt rapscallions. Along with the rousing adventures there were satisfactions of a different sort: the enchantment of seeing architecture made real; the pride of creating housing, hospitals, schools, places of worship--shelter for the body and nourishment for the spirit"--
Subjects: Buildings, structures, Construction industry, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Civil engineers, Contractors, Biography, History, Civil engineers -- United States -- Biography, Contractors -- United States -- Biography, Construction industry -- New York (State) -- New York -- History, New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- History, New york (n.y.), buildings, structures, etc., New york (n.y.), biography, Civil engineering, Buildings
Places: United States, New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York