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The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York by Robert A. Caro is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Digital Release PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's 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 of New York. 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. But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man—an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Robert A. Caro
Publisher
Vintage Books
Published
1975
Language
EN
ISBN
9780394720241
Category
history
Subjects
Art, Memoir, Fiction
Rating
4.48 / 5 (7,939 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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