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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center is a non-fiction book by American writer Daniel Okrent about the conception, planning, and building of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City. The text was initially published on September 29, 2003 by Viking.
Nov 30, 2004 · At the center of Okrent's riveting story are four remarkable individuals: tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood.
Jan 1, 2003 · Author and renowned journalist Daniel Okrent builds the story of the construction of Rockefeller Center year by year, brick by brick and dollar by dollar in the hugely entertaining Great Fortune. Conceived and planned in the waning days of the 1920s before the Great Depression.
Sep 29, 2003 · Daniel Okrent's Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center is a book for New Yorkers from Ashtabula to Zimbabwe: a study of ambition, audacity, and deal-making on a grand scale that led to the construction of some of the most famous skyscrapers in the world.
Nov 30, 2004 · At the center of Okrent's riveting story are four remarkable individuals: tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and...
At the center of Okrent’s riveting story are four remarkable individuals: tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood.
Launched in the teeth of the worst depression in American history, the most ambitious construction project since the Pyramids was the unintended result of a philanthropic gesture gone awry. But...
