Good Guys, Wiseguys, and Putting Up Buildings

Author: Samuel C. Florman
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0312641672

Good Guys, Wiseguys, and Putting Up Buildings: A Life in Construction

Good Guys, Wiseguys, and Putting Up Buildings is anAengaging memoir about one man's career in construction--rising to the top of an industry renowned for crime, corruption, violence, physical danger, and the chronic risk of financial catastrophe. Download Good Guys, Wiseguys, and Putting Up Buildings: A Life in Construction from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Starting in the Navy Seabees at the end of WWII, Samuel C. Florman made his way as a general contractor in New York City through the period of explosive development, private exuberance and the historic growth of publicly supported housing--all amidst the rise of the notorious Mafia families,
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