Description: An acclaimed author and journalist weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to tell the story of the majestic suite of buildings that came to dominate the heart of midtown Manhattan.
Review Quotes: A great book. Nuanced, clever and rollicking, itÆs nonfiction as a work of art. (The New York Observer)
Altogether stirring and vivid and enjoyable. (The New Yorker) Puckish good humor and elegant prose. (The Wall Street Journal) Delightful and exhaustive (but never exhausting)à the dazzling, complex story of how New YorkÆs acropolis came to be. (The Smithsonian)