The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages1,344 pages
ISBN
9780394720241
Published
1974
Description
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the pulitzer and the francis parkman prizes, tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and make...One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the pulitzer and the francis parkman prizes, 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.