Moses is pictured as idealist reformer and political manipulator as his rise to power and eventual domination of New York State politics is documented This is the first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man-an ...

The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story.

ke work and wags said it stood for We Piddle Around. The contrary was true. We have only to look about us today to discover its lasting presence.

Hundreds of carefully researched line drawings illustrate the development of Manhattan's architecture and infrastructure--its early houses and super skyscrapers, its subways and waterlines, telephone and electrical cables, and bridges.

A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast