First Edition. First printing. Fine, fresh, apparently unread copy in fine dust jacket. 512 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. The story behind one of New York's (and indeed the world's) most well known sites, Rockefeller Center. Everything about the conception and creation of the complex of buildings was outsized and wildly improbable. Firstly, it was designed and constructed during the depths of the Great Depression. It was also orignally conceived as a philanthropic gesture by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. for the City of New York. Author Daniel Okrent skillfully weaves together the themes of money, politics, art, architecture, buisness and society to relate the story of the majestic site of buildings that came to dominate the heart of midtown Manhattan and with it, for a time, the heart of the world.

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Title: Great Fortune; The Epic Of Rockefeller Center
Publisher: Penguin Books, New York
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0670031690
ISBN 13: 9780670031696
Binding: hardcover
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: fine

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A social history of the creation of Rockefeller Center notes how its ambitious planning process was compromised by the depression; identifies the roles of such individuals as Gertrude Vanderbilt, Georgia O'Keefe, and Benito Mussolini; and cites the eccentric personalities that oversaw its construction. 50,000 first printing.

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Daniel Okrent is a prizewinning journalist, a frequent television commentator, and the author of several highly acclaimed books. For many years, he was a senior editorial executive at Time Inc. and a contributor to all of the company's major magazines.

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