Robert moses and the fall of new york, everywhere acclaimed as a modern classic, was chosen by the modern library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. Everywhere acknowledged as a modern american classic, winner of the pulitzer prize, and chosen by the modern library as one of the hundred greatest books. Biographer robert caro on fame, power and working to uncover. Along with tom hanks performance as fred rogers in a beautiful day in the. It has been revealed that before hardball, the broker empowered rogers brother with super strength, though did not tell him. In these positions of power moses dispensed money to many agencies. And despite its uniformly excellent quality its pulitzer prize is well deserved i felt every single one of those pages. San franciscos exmayor willie brown has pioneered a new way to control a city without breaking a sweator running for office, or getting elected, or disclosing his clients. Islandlater the site of one of robert mosess great bridgeswas by many measures. So as ive been reading alongin what turns out to be a nearly 1200 page, absolute pageturner of a book ive been wondering how the power broker reacted to robert caros work. Oct 23, 2015 t echnically, robert caros book the power broker is a biography of urban planner robert moses, but that description feels laughably inadequate on multiple counts. This was no small thing, especially in 1975, when this book was published. Published 40 years ago, caros first book was considered a classic of its kind as soon as it appeared.
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Robert moses and the fall of new york is a 1974 biography of robert moses by robert caro. Robert moses and the fall of new york, every where acclaimed as a modern classic, was chosen by the modern library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to david halberstam, surely the greatest book ever written about a city. 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. As he aids those in elected office he gains power to sculpt new york city and its environs in an increasingly independent manner, ultimately wielding more power than the elected governors and mayors.
Everywhere acknowledged as a modern american classic, winner of the pulitzer prize, and chosen by the modern library as one of the hundred greatest books of the 20th century, the power broker is a galvanizing biography revealing not only the saga of one mans incredible accumulation of power, but the story of the shaping and misshaping of new york in the 20th century. Curtiss jackson is the head of the corporations west coast division and the founder of power broker, inc which is a criminal organization that would augment the strength of paying individuals to. Top ten bankers, policy makers, thinkers, money managers, power brokers. Discover book depository s huge selection of robert a caro books online. 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 misshaping of twentiethcentury new york city and state and makes public what few have known.
Caro, 9781847923646, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The book focuses on the creation and use of power in local and state politics, as witnessed through moses use of unelected positions to design and implement dozens of highways and bridges, sometimes at great cost to the communities he nominally served. Caro, who has now nearly dedicated his life to writing a multivolume biography of lyndon baines johnson that, as one critic noted, its taking caro longer to write it than it took lbj to live, got a lot right in the power broker. At that time, moses was still alive, and his cronies, the moses men, were a tightlipped group. Sep 16, 1974 at nearly 1,200 pages of text not including endnotes and the index, robert caros the power broker is a big book. Robert moses and the fall of new york by caro, robert a isbn. Some parts of what i wrote from the outline would later have to be truncated or cut out entirely so that the book could fit into one volume. The power broker concept was devised by mark gruenwald as a satire on the public obsession with health and fitness publication history.
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