Description: A powerful history of New York's transformation from a city of middle-class aspiration to one of entrenched inequality.
Brief description: Mason B. Williams is the author of City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York, an Editors' Choice of the New York Times Book Review. He teaches at Williams College.
Review Quotes: For readers interested in understanding why contemporary New York City is so stratified and hierarchical, City of Fortune is essential. Researched with exceptional precision and grace, and beautifully written, the book offers not only a history of New York?Mason B. Williams tells the story of the remaking of the entire United States in the late twentieth century. This is a remarkable accomplishment.--Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Fear City