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Great Fortune The Epic of Rockefeller Center

Daniel Okrent

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 constructi...

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History That Doesn't Suck

It is about New York City in the 1920s and early 1930s. The book's research helped Dan Okrent to realize the impact of Prohibition on American society.

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My previous book was called Great Fortune, The Epic of Rockefeller Center, which is really a book about New York in the 1920s and early 30s, particularly Midtown New York.

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It is about New York City in the 1920s and early 1930s. The book's research helped Dan Okrent to realize the impact of Prohibition on American society.

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My previous book was called Great Fortune, The Epic of Rockefeller Center, which is really a book about New York in the 1920s and early 30s, particularly Midtown New York.

And I was doing research for one chapter about how the Rockefeller interests acquired the land, 228 different land leases to be able to assemble the piece of property that became Rockefeller Center.

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