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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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A truly unique figure, Robert Moses has never been as deeply explored as in The Power Broker. This is a full character portrait of the man who built modern New York City, and the status that came with it. It’s the story of power, progress and politics, and it is riveting.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York.
One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of Ne...
One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of Ne...
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