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Mason B. Williams

Biography

Mason B. Williams

Mason B. Williams is a historian specializing in urban politics with degrees from Columbia University and Princeton University. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. CITY OF AMBITION is his first book.

Mason B. Williams

Books by Mason B. Williams

City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York
by Mason B. Williams - History, Nonfiction

Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia were an odd couple: patrician president and immigrant mayor, fireside chat and tabloid cartoon, pragmatic Democrat and reform Republican. But together, as leaders of America’s two largest governments in the depths of the Great Depression, they fashioned a route to recovery for the nation and the master plan for a great city. CITY OF AMBITION is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City.