THE GREAT MISCALCULATION

The Race to Save New York City's

Citicorp Tower

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Recipient of the 2025 NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite honor for nonfiction.

This masterly account reveals the full scope of a sequence of events that could have ended in catastrophe. It’s a work of scholarship that gives the story its ultimate form, a soaring drama built on a foundation of scrupulously reported facts, and that solves an intriguing mystery in the process.
 Joe Morgenstern, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Criticsm, 2005; Writer of The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis