";s:4:"text";s:5438:" And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens—the way things really get done in America’s City Halls and Statehouses—and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller.Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He is also an extraordinary writer. world. . . . It is cheap at the price and too short by half. . The most unlikely subjects–banking, ward politics, construction, traffic management, state financing, insurance companies, labor unions, bridge building–become alive and contemporary. Can a democracy combine visionary leadership with effective checks and balances to contain the misuse of power? Submit your email address to receive Barnes & Noble offers & updates.
Use up arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+up arrow) and down arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+down arrow) to review and enter to select.Click or Press Enter to view the items in your shopping bag or Press Tab to interact with the Shopping bag tooltipCurrent price is $23.99, Original price is $26. and probably the greatest biographer. Superb . Only this is no novel. After reading page 136 of his book “Apart from the book’s being so good as biography, as city history, as sheer good reading, “Required reading for all those who hope to make their way in urban politics; for the reformer, the planner, the politician and even the ward heeler.” —Jules L. Wagman, “An extraordinary study of the workings of power, individually, institutionally, politically, and economically in our republic.”“Caro has written one of the finest, best-researched and most analytically informative descriptions of our political and governmental processes to appear in a generation.” —Nicholas Von Hoffman, “This is irresistibly readable, an outright masterpiece and unparalleled insight into how power works and perhaps the greatest portrait ever of a world city.” —David Sexton, “Caro’s achievement is staggering. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. The Power Broker 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 man’s incredible accumulation of power, but the story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York in the twentieth …
He dominated the politics and politicians of his time—without ever having been elected to any office. . .
Meanwhile, he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as “Triborough”—a government whose records were closed to the public, whose policies and plans were decided not by voters or elected officials but solely by Moses—an immense economic force directing pressure on labor unions, on banks, on all the city’s political and economic institutions, and on the press, and on the Church. It is like one of the great Russian novels, overflowing with characters and incidents that all fit into a vast mosaic of plot and counterplot. . you know that you are in the hands of a master . Hecate is the Greek goddess of sorcery, and Edmund Wilson's Hecate County is the bewitched ... Written in 19291930, when Federico García Lorca was visiting Columbia University, Poet in New York You Save 8%.B.A., Princeton University, 1957; Nieman Fellow at Harvard University A milestone in literary and publishing history.” —Donald R. Morris, “A masterpiece of American reporting.
It has been repeatedly named one of the best biographies of the 20th century, and has been highly influential on city planners and politicians througho… her cousin's daughter. A majestic, even Shakespearean, drama about the interplay of power and personality.” —Justin Kaplan“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 feverish hype that dominates the merchandising of arts and letters in America has so debased the language that, when a truly exceptional achievement comes along, there are no words left to praise it.
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. This is a study of the corruption which power exerts on those who wield it to set beside Tacitus and his emperors, Shakespeare and his kings.” —Daniel Berger, “Simply one of the best nonfiction books in English of the past 40 years . . A wonderful description of the scenery, rivers, towns, villages, and most important things on the The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Robert A. Caro (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) 4.6 out of 5 stars 628 ratings See all formats and editions
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