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Title: Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent ISBN: 0-670-03169-0 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Remarkable detail
Comment: The story of Rockefeller Center is truly epic and in one way a history of New York in the twentieth century. A true behind the scenes look at the story of a complex and a city. The one drawback was the entire bankruptcy of the center was reduced to one paragraph in the Epilogue. It alone is worthy of a book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Book
Comment: GREAT FORTUNE is even better than its best reviews suggest. Its understanding of society and social history, of architecture and architectural history, its authority of research and elegance of style--its sheer fun!--make GREAT FORTUNE that rarity among modern books: a work one can read and read again. Okrent's portrait of the great Raymond Hood is alone worth the price of the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Remember Tracy Kidder?
Comment: Daniel Okrent takes his little theme - which involves the whole history of American real estate development, big business, big law, big oil, the growth of the 20th century American university, the Depression, the New Deal, the growth of New York City, the twentieth century transformation of architecture, the clash of egos, the history of American theatre and more - and yet, despite this narrow focus, makes it even more interesting, absorbing and thrilling than Tracy Kidder's epic of building a single family dwelling in HOUSE.
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Title: Higher : A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City by Neal Bascomb ISBN: 0385506600 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle ISBN: 0871138743 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003 by Douglas Brinkley ISBN: 067003181X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 28 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Parting the Desert : The Creation of the Suez Canal by Zachary Karabell ISBN: 0375408835 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 20 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Fallingwater Rising : Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House by Franklin Toker ISBN: 1400040264 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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