With this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, acclaimed author and journalist Daniel Okrent weaves together themes of cash, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to tell the storyplot from the majestic suite of buildings that found dominate the heart of midtown Manhattan and with it, for a while, the heart from the globe. At the guts of Okrent’s riveting story are four amazing people: tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious child Nelson Rockefeller, property genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood. In the custom of David McCullough’s The Great Bridge, Ron Chernow’s Titan, and Robert Caro’s THE ENERGY Broker, Great Lot of money is a stunning tribute to an American landmark that catches the heart and heart of New York at its apotheosis.