We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Doshinsky, culture editor here at the Federalist.

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I'm so excited to be joined today by Matthew Taylor.

He is the director and writer of Gotham, the Fall and Rise of New York, which comes out

on March 21st.

Matthew, thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

So I have screened the film and I think it's fantastic.

It's a great contribution, especially in this documentary boom of a product that is just

of the highest quality, but tells a story that the sort of documentary establishment,

the Hollywood establishment, would not tell this way.

Congratulations on the film.

What got you involved in this project?

You know, I was actually working toward a project about Robert Moses for a number of

years in Larry Mohn of the Manhattan Institute approached my wife and I in late 2019 about

doing a project about, you know, the turnaround in New York City in the 90s.

And my family was in and out of the city from 86 to 95.

I was 15 when Rudolph Giuliani was elected.

So it's in New York City, I actually remember.

And so having already been steeped in a ton of New York history, it made sense to say,

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