The Stories the GM Building Can Tell

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 21, 2014

Vicky Ward, contributing editor to Vanity Fair and the author of The Liar's Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons (Wiley, 2014) 1118295315, explains New York commercial real estate through the saga of one building -- The G.M. Building, now home to the Apple Store pyramid and FAO Schwartz.

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