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About the Author

Carol Willis is founding director of the Skyscraper Museum in New York City.

Reviews

Seldom does a title summarize so tersely and completely the contents of a book as does that of Carol Willis's brisk, lucid investigation into the foreces that shaped the prodigious tall buildings of America's two major turn-of-the-century metropolises. Martin Filler, New York Times Book Review A fascinating document for banker, developer, and architect alike. Matthew Barnett Howland, World Architecture