Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center (Paperback)

A Note to the Reader

Prologue: May 21, 1928 and September 30, 1939

1. The Heart of This Great City

2. A Commonplace Person

3. These Properties Will Be Greatly Increased in Value

4. I Chose the Latter Course

5. Architecture Never Lies

6. Tears of Joy to a Small Business Man

7. I Like Having a Lot of People Against Me

8. A Genius

9. A Hundred Lawsuits

10. Let Owen Young Do It

11. Who Designed Rockefeller Center?

12. Wondering Where I'm Going to Get the Money

13. Our Architects Deserve to Remain in Chains

14. Desperate for Business

15. Give 'Em Something Better

16. Ruthlessness Was Just Another Word for Good Business

17. All the Finns in Helsingfors

18. What Do You Paint, When You Paint on a Wall?

19. I Was Not Interested in Sitting and Listening

20. Visitors Give Him Dollars

21. The Snake Changing Its Skin

22. The Kingdom of the World

23. The Demand is Almost Unbelievable

Epilogue: 1948-2003

Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Illustration Credits
Index