TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stewart,Jules
TI  - Gotham rising: New York in the 1930s 
SN  - 9781784535292 (hbk.) :
AV  - F128.5 
U1  - 974.7104 STE 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Nineteen thirties
KW  - History
KW  - 1898-1951
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N2  - After the roaring 20's, the catastrophic Wall Street Crash and ensuing Depression seemed to spell disaster for New York. Yet, in this era, it underwent an architectural, economic, social and creative renaissance under the leadership of the charismatic mayor Fiorello La Guardia. After seizing power, he declared war on the mafia mobs running vast swathes of the city, attacked political corruption and kick-started the economy through a variety of construction and infrastructure projects. In culture, this was the age of the Harlem Renaissance championed by writers like Langston Hughes, the jazz age with the advent of Tin-Pan Alley, the Cotton Club and immortals such as Duke Ellington making his name in the Big Apple. Weaving these stories together, Jules Stewart tells the story of an iconic city in a time of change
ER  -