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The Power Broker Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro

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 b...

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The Ben Shapiro Show

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The Ben Shapiro Show

The speaker referenced this book when discussing claims about Robert Moses building highways to prevent Black and Hispanic people from accessing the beach, suggesting the claims cited from the book were not entirely true.

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And then citing a story from Robert Caro's book on Robert Moses, the power broker from 1974. Talking about how Robert Moses, who built a lot of the public works in New York, was a vicious racist and h...

— Episode: Ep. 1372 - Biden: Ignore The Law, Obey M...

Episode: Ep. 1372 - Biden: Ignore The Law, Obey Me

The speaker referenced this book when discussing claims about Robert Moses building highways to prevent Black and Hispanic people from accessing the beach, suggesting the claims cited from the book were not entirely true.

"

And then citing a story from Robert Caro's book on Robert Moses, the power broker from 1974. Talking about how Robert Moses, who built a lot of the public works in New York, was a vicious racist and how they had built highways that were specifically designed to prevent black and Hispanic people from getting to the beach.

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