The Power Broker

Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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Robert A. Caro: The Power Broker (Hardcover, 1974, Knopf)

Hardcover, 1296 pages

English language

Published Sept. 16, 1974 by Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-394-48076-3
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OCLC Number:
834874
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a 1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro. The book focuses on the creation and use of power in New York 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. It has been repeatedly named one of the best biographies of the 20th century, and has been highly influential on city planners and politicians throughout the United States. The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975.

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