Mason B. Williams, “City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York”

A conversation on the unlikely collaboration of the Democratic president and the Republican mayor that helped to revitalize New York during the Depression.  Featuring author Mason B. Williams in conversation with Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University, with Introductory Remarks by Joseph P. Viteritti, Thomas Hunter Professor of Public Policy, Chair of the Urban Affairs & Planning Department, Hunter College.