Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Whalen, Robert Weldon

Titel

Epilogue: That Dangerous and Sad City of the Imagination

Ist Teil von

• Murder Inc., and the Moral Life, 2016, p.209

Ort / Verlag

United States: Fordham University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In November 1945, gangbuster and brigadier general Bill O’Dwyer was elected the one hundredth mayor of New York City. Everyone loved Bill O’Dwyer, he was charming, funny, and gregarious; at his inauguration, he lustily joined in a chorus of “It’s a Great Day for the Irish.”² New York City entered a long economic boom in the O’Dwyer years—World War II was over, and the American Century was at its height; Mayor O’Dwyer was in charge of the city’s first billion-dollar budget; he was mayor when the United Nations moved its headquarters into town; New York succeeded Paris as the