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Neal Bascomb - Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City [Repost]
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Neal Bascomb - Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
2003 | ISBN: 0385506619, 0767912683 | English | 360 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 2.7 MB
2003 | ISBN: 0385506619, 0767912683 | English | 360 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 2.7 MB
The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.
In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce rivalry was born. Two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance (former friends and successful partners, but now bitter adversaries), set out to imprint their individual marks on the greatest canvas in the world–the rapidly evolving skyline of New York City. Each man desired to build the city’s tallest building, or ‘skyscraper.’ Each would stop at nothing to outdo his rival.