talk i m not good at power point. well, this is not the supreme city. it s 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. it s an unfold story, actually. it s been told in bits and pieces, but it s 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 wasn t 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. it s 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 i
feats that are now a comic symbols of new york city. this event was hosted by the new york public library, and last about 90 minutes. thank you, lois. i want to thank the library for organizing this event. can you guys hear me in the back? can you hear me now? no? yes? i will speak loudly. it is great to be in the city, lecturing on the city that he wrote about. in the very place in the city that you wrote about midtown manhattan. a couple of preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. i like that better than powerpoint, as a term. i m not good at powerpoint. luddite, i m i m a just a technological idiot. not the book i originally set out to right. the original idea was to do the whole city. all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. cute, itrying to be too took to bigger bite out of the apple. i discovered, as i was doing my research, that i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to t
david coke koch in the midst of radical it is sinkers to have your sci-fi keek santer and our guest and they say see you later. they tried the third way attempt to break the control of the democratic and republican parties over national politics. they come to the realization that the only pragmatic approach is to work within the two-party structure and this is within the phase of their political structure in and around this time charros relies on a man who has become his longtime political advisor and right-hand man. a young economist at that point it had met charles the few years earlier when he pitched him on the creation of a free economics broker wreckers program at rutgers university. but today s fabricated center had a reputation to get things done not unlike the libertarian activist that charles had encountered that had grained notions but not much follow-through. in the early 80s charles asks to review the ideological and investment with the idea to recalibrate h
lecturing on the city that he wrote about. in the very place in the city that you wrote about midtown manhattan. a couple of preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. i like that better than powerpoint, as a term. i m not good at powerpoint. it s not that i m a luddite, i m just a technological idiot. this is not the book i originally set out to right. the original idea was to do the whole city. all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. without trying to be too cute, i took to bigger bite out of the apple. i discovered, as i was doing my research, that i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell. it is an untold story, actually. it has been told in bits and pieces. but it has never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative. that sudden and spectacular rise of midtown manhattan in the 1920 s. it was an urban backwater before 1919. there wasn t a single skies grou
the war, the pace of military operations or determine the pace of how quickly the local population is seen the south vietnamese government as a legitimate entity. and so what you see here, i think, are some disconnects, not only in modernization theorys the that we talked about earlier but also this theory of graduated pressure. as we talked about a little bit earlier in the evening, there s a difference clearly between articulating strategy and implementing it. and i think this is a clear case of that. so thank you. [ applause ] here are some of the programs you ll find this weekend on the c-span networks. saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, live coverage of the memorial service for former washington, d.c. mayor marion barry and sunday evening at 8:00 on c-span s q&a, ann compton who recently retired after 40 years as abc news white house correspondent. saturday night at 10:00 on book tv on c-span2, assistant professor jason sokol on how the northeast u.s. wasn t alw