Main entry:

Okrent, Daniel, 1948- author.

Title & Author:

Great fortune : the epic of Rockefeller Center / Daniel Okrent.

Publication:

New York : Viking, [2003]
©2003

Description:

xiv, 512 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-480) and index.
Prologue: May 21, 1928, and September 30, 1939 -- The heart of this great city -- A commonplace person -- These properties will be greatly increased in value -- I chose the latter course -- Architecture never lies -- Tears of joy to a small business man -- I like having a lot of people against me -- A genius -- A hundred lawsuits -- Let Owen Young do it -- Who designed Rockefeller Center? -- Wondering where I'm going to get the money -- Our architects deserve to remain in chains -- Desperate for business -- Give 'em something better -- Ruthlessness was just another word for good business -- All the Finns in Helsingfors -- What do you paint, when you paint on a wall? -- I was not interested in sitting and listening -- Visitors give him dollars -- The snake changing his skin -- The kingdom of the world -- The demand is almost unbelievable -- Epilogue: 1948-2003.
Also issued online.

Summary:

A social history of the creation of Rockefeller Center notes how its planning process was compromised by the Depression, and cites the eccentric personalities that oversaw its construction.

Resources:
Sample text
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0670031690 (alk. paper)
9780670031696 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Rockefeller family.
Rockefeller (Famille)
Rockefeller Center History.
Rockefeller Center
Architecture New York (State) New York History.
Interviews New York (State) New York.
Oral history.
Architecture New York (État) New York Histoire.
Entretiens New York (État) New York.
Histoire orale.
oral histories (literary genre)
Architecture
Buildings
Interviews
Buildings New York (N.Y.)
Architecture New York (N.Y.) History.
New York (N.Y.) History 1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New York (N.Y.) Biography.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire 1898-1951.
New York (State) New York
New York (N.Y.) History.
New York (N.Y.) Rockefeller Center.

Form/genre:

Oral history.
oral histories (literary genre)
Oral histories
Biographies
History
Books.
Histoires orales.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230434
Call No.: NA44.H777.25 R6 2003
Status: Available