| Manhattan Skyline, 1912, The image of power
that the dense New York skyline evoked represented the growing control that
large corporations and influential businessmen had over the industrial,
financial, and political life of the nation. As this skyline shows, they
were also changing the physical landscape of urban life. In response, Walter
Lippmann argued in Drift and Mastery (1914) that countervailing powers were
needed to maintain an equitable and harmonious society. Source: Master
Builders of the World's Greatest Structures (1913). |
