452 All text between quotation marks is taken directly from the book. Robert caros monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that robert moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the. Caro with fast free shipping on every used book we have in. The whole life of robert moses, in fact, has been a drama of the interplay of power and personality. Without ever once being elected to office, he created for himself a position of supreme and untouchable authority, allowing him to utterly reshape the city. The power broker tells the story of robert moses, the single most powerful man in new york for almost half a century and the greatest builder america and. For almost 500 pages in the previous sections, caro has. Moses, who was instrumental in shaping modern new york city, is depicted in caros pulitzer prize-winning book as a power-hungry bureaucrat who, while never elected, had more control over public works than most mayors and governors in new york. Synopsis: 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 twentieth century, the power broker is a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the saga of one mans incredible accumulation of power, but the story of the shaping and mis-shaping of new york in the twentieth. The first book was about robert moses, the city planner who shaped modern new york.
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Robert caros 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. Caros second-biggest project after the four and, soon, five volumes of the years of lyndon johnson, is a. Awarded the pulitzer prize for biography, robert a. In the beginning he was idealistic, even wanting to dedicate his life to public service. Caro is a riveting and timeless account of power, politics and the city of. A story of an idealist, robert moses, who becomes jaded and calloused by the system, who learns to work the system to gain power, and who then proceeds to. The authors have created a sort of anti-book of virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power. And that was really the genesis of the power broker. Part 5 of robert caros massive biography of robert moses makes plain its intent: the love of power. Finalist, national book awards 175 for contemporary affairs. The power broker: robert moses and the fall of new york by robert a caro, book review. Epub/book-download in pursuit of the common good: twenty-five years of improving the world, one bottle of salad dressing at a time by paul newman full. The power broker: robert moses and the fall of new york by caro, robert a. 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 twentieth century. 1046 The power broker covers the life of robert moses, a burly character in both form and business. Robert caros response to robert moses response to robert caros the power broker one aspect of robert moses that my book attempts to portray is that of the smearer of reputations, the purveyor of baseless innuendo and outright falsehood, the wholesaler of defamation -- in a public official who, through a ruthless and awesome public relations machinery, practiced mccarthyism long before there. 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. First, robert caro is a master of exhaustively-researched biographies, and this book is remarkable in.