Phil in SF quoted The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only …
Eastern European Jews arrived in the New World scarred by the lash and the knout, idealistic and socialistic- and dirt poor.
— The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro (1%)
new vocabulary: knout
(in imperial Russia) a whip used to inflict punishment, often causing death