Talk im not good at power point. Well, this is not the supreme city. Its not the book i originally set out to write. And the original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. But without trying to be too cute, i took too big of a bite out of the apple. And i discovered doing my Research Within the larger story i had intended to tell. Its an unfold story, actually. Its been told in bits and pieces, but its never stitched together as a compelling historical narrative. And that story is the rise of the sudden and spectacular rise of midtown manhattan in the 1920s. Which was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a single skyscraper above 42nd street. And by the end of the decade, by the end of the 1920s, almost half of new york skyscrapers were in midtown. Its one of the great building booms not only in the history of the United States, but in the history of the world. This eruption, almost, that occurs in these years. And
I had to wait a long time for this. I was at basic training in fort jackson. The the obviously here easily, and and the cadre and the mess talking about the restraints that the personnel of bjl. And lbj and the restraints that he was under was the incremental buildup that johnson put him through and the administration and i dont think you spoke much about it and just an observation of my own that the only thing i saw later on that what really worked that scared the bejeaners was a linebacker one and two. That got them, you know, to the to negotiate with us. Thats an important point, i think, that clearly west moreland is dealing with the with the theory of graduated pressure which is which kind of takes hold in the National Security establishment. This idea that we can determine how much pressure to ratchet up or ratchet back and eventually hanoi will realize that it cant win this long war because we have the ability to either ratchet up or ratchet back. Unfortunately, we dont have tha
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