Mason B. Williams is the author of City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York, an Editors’ Choice of the New York Times Book Review. He teaches at Williams College.

"City of Fortune is first and foremost a political history… The strongest and most important feature of this book is its forthrightness about the racial dimensions of New York’s inequality."

Mason B. Williams is the author of City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York, an Editors’ Choice of the New York Times Book Review. He teaches at Williams College.

"City of Fortune is first and foremost a political history… The strongest and most important feature of this book is its forthrightness about the racial dimensions of New York’s inequality."

Mason B. Williams is the author of City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York, an Editors’ Choice of the New York Times Book Review. He teaches at Williams College.

"City of Fortune is first and foremost a political history… The strongest and most important feature of this book is its forthrightness about the racial dimensions of New York’s inequality."