The Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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The story of Robert Moses, who shaped the politics, the physical structure and even the problems of urban decline in New York.

The publisher, Alfred A. Knopf: Robert A. Caro's life of Robert Moses is one of the most acclaimed biographies of our time, acknowledged as a modern American classic. It won both the Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book which "best represents the union of the historian and the artist." Here are just a few of the hundreds of tributes it has received from critics and writers.
"Surely the greatest book ever written about a city." -David Halberstam.
"The most absorbing, detailed, instructive, provocative book ever published on the making and raping of modern New York City . . . a monumental work, a political biography and political history of the first magnitude." -Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York. "Fascinating, every oversize page of it." -Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek.
"A masterpiece of American reporting . . .an elegantly written and enthralling work of art." -Theodore H. White.
"A study of municipal power that will change the way any reader of the book hereafter peruses his newspaper." -Philip Herrara, Time.
"In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort." -Richard C. Wade, The New York Times Book Review. "A triumph, brilliant and totally fascinating. A majestic, even Shakespearean, drama about the interplay of power and personality." -Justin Kaplan.
"The feverish hype that dominates the merchandising of art and letters in America has so debased the language that, when a truly exceptional acheivement comes along, there are no words left to praise it. Important, awesome, compelling; these no longer summon the full flourish of trumpets this book deserves. It is extraordinary on many levels and certain to endure." -William Greider, The Washington Post Book World.

 

 

 

 

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