City for Conquest

F. Scott Fitzgeralds <em>The Great Gatsby</em> still captivates readers with its vision of 1920s New York as a city of infinite potential, where ambition and defeat live hand in hand. This sentiment is captured, with even greater acuity, in the pages of Aben Kandels nearly forgotten masterpiece of urban life, <em>City for Conquest</em> (1936)