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The Power Broker (Pulitzer Prize Winner) 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 episode broke down Caro's Pulitzerwinning 1974 biography, covering chapters 16-20 (pages 283401) and discussing the rise and abuse of political power in New York through Robert Moses and his allies.

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This is the 99% Invisible breakdown of The Power Broker.

— Episode: The Power Broker #04: Rep. Alexandria Oc...

Episode: The Power Broker #04: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Corte...

The episode broke down Caro's Pulitzerwinning 1974 biography, covering chapters 16-20 (pages 283401) and discussing the rise and abuse of political power in New York through Robert Moses and his allies.

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This is the 99% Invisible breakdown of The Power Broker.

Next month we're finishing up part four, the Use of Power, covering chapters 21 through 24 - that's pages 402 through 496 - in my amazingly huge printed copy of the Power Broker.

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