With the possible exception of Robert Moses (see item NYC53), no one has had more impact on the New York City landscape than Frederick Law Olmsted. Two of his masterpieces, Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn, still exert an extraordinary pull on New York City. This is the very well told story of their creator, a 19th-century renaissance man, whose midlife vision of the integration of broad vistas into the urban landscape is very much still with us.  (NYC62, $15.95)