I only realized once I read everyone else’s posts that I had read ahead in my last response and mentioned Roosevelt and the New Deal.

I thought it made a lot of sense throughout the book that Roosevelt and La Guardia would be such great companions, even though they came form such different political backgrounds. The New Deal was obviously a huge change in America and was Roosevelt’s way of pushing the US out of the Great Depression. La Guardia’s politics reflected many of these ideals, namely, city governments being funded and supported by the federal government. This proved to be a huge factor in La Guardia’s rebuilding and support of the growth of New York City. The city became a great central model of New Deal operations, such as welfare programs and public work (parks, affordable housing), all of which proved to help the city tremendously and put La Guardia high on the list of the city’s best mayors.