San Antonio College Library

Compact biography of the man who administrated the city government of New York City in the middle 30's, with emphasis on his concern for the poor.

During this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns documents how the dramatic events that followed the Crash of {u2019}29 fueled the greatest financial depression in American history and plunged the city and the nation into economic gloom. In little more than ten years, immense new forces were unleashed in New York, from the Depression itself to the New Deal, which permanently altered the city and the country. Along the way,...