The Power Broker

Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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Robert A. Caro: The Power Broker (Paperback, 1975)

Paperback, 1246 pages

English language

Published Dec. 3, 1975

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978-0-394-72024-1
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One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in New York, the shaper not only of the city's politics but of its physical structure and the problems of urban decline that plague us today.

In revealing how Moses did it--how he developed his public authorities into a political machine that was virtually a fourth branch of government, one that could bring to their knees Governors and Mayors (from La Guardia to Lindsay) by mobilizing banks, contractors, labor unions, insurance firms, even the press and the Church, into an irresistible economic force--Robert Caro reveals how power works …

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Subjects

  • Nonfiction
  • History
  • NYC
  • New York
  • City Planning
  • Politics