Fiorello LaGuardia is known best as the tempestuous mayor of New York City in the days when Franklin Delano Roosevelt sat in the White House. There had been, ho

“Fascinating. . . . Williams tells the story of La Guardia and Roosevelt with insight and elegance.”—Edward Glaeser, New York Times Book Review

Includes congressional correspondence (1919-1933), mayoralty correspondence (1933-1945), press releases, speeches, writings, printed material, and scrapbooks.

Famous as mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia's career in Congress bridged the Progressive and New Deal eras.