Great Mayor Fiorello LA Guardia and the Making of the City of New York

"Unfortunately, while La Guardia was arguably not only a great mayor but the greatest, THE GREAT MAYOR is not a great book. It is sometimes pedantic, strained, redundant and peppered with anachronisms....It dangles facts and figures without context.... And while it offers tantalizing tidbits of La Guardia's unguarded oratory, it left me hungry for more verbatim accounts. Still, any reminder that few 20th-century political figures had a greater impact on urban America is worth perusing.Brodsky, Alyn is the author of 'Great Mayor Fiorello LA Guardia and the Making of the City of New York', published 2003 under ISBN 9780312287375 and ISBN 0312287372.