I'd highly recommend Caro's The Power Broker -- it manages to be an amazing book on new york city, the 20th century and the automobile which was the high tech d

I'd highly recommend Caro's The Power Broker -- it manages to be an amazing book on new york city, the 20th century and the automobile which was the high tech dream device of the first part of that century. Too many folks idolize technology in the "name of progress" but never really think how that technology impacts the lives of every day people.