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they said: " I don't know what era you're interested in, but I assign this to my college urban history classes, and they love it (as do I). It is set in 1929 and 1930--the building of the Empire State Building. It deals with the massive corruption of NYC, the lot of the Irish immigrant, and the actual construction of the tallest building in the world told from the perspective of one of the workers. I recommend this highly. I don't know what era you're interested in, but I assign this to my college urban history classes, and they love it (as do I). It is set in 1929 and 1930--the building of the Empire State Building. It deals with the massive corruption of NYC, the lot of the Irish immigrant, and the actual construction of the tallest building in the world told from the perspective of one of the workers. I recommend this highly. ...more "