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  *Freeman, Joshua B. Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II. New Press,  2001. pp. xii-178. *Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001. pp. […]

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*Taylor, Clarence. Civil Rights in New York City from World War II to the Giuliani Era. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. pp. 1-9. S *Osofsky, Gilbert. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York, 1890-1930. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. pp.1-105. S […]

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*Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. New York: The Modern Library, 1931. “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” pp. 352-362. S *Gage, Beverly. The Day Wall Street Exploded a Story of America in Its First Age of Terror. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. […]

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*David G McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. pp. 122-43, 325-416, 505-524. *Robert A Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Knopf, 1974. Chapters […]

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*David Ward and Olivier Zunz, The Landscape of Modernity: Essays on New York City, 1900-1940. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1992. Chapters 2, 7, 8.  S *Keith D Revell, Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898-1938. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University […]

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*Thomas Kessner, Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989. pp. 257-539. *Vincent J Cannato, The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York. New York: Basic Books, 2001. pp. 75-154; 189-266; 301-352; 389-442; 525-553. […]

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A Selected Bibliography of New York City History

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