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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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It was praised as an incredible biography of Robert Moses and described as a complete work whose ending did not cover the later fiscal crisis. The hosts used it as the foundation for their series breaking down New York's history.

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We spent a good chunk of last year on a special series breaking down the power broker by Robert Caro, the incredible biography of New York City planner Robert Moses. The power broker is such a complet...

— Episode: The Power Broker #13: Drop Dead City

Episode: The Power Broker #13: Drop Dead City

It was praised as an incredible biography of Robert Moses and described as a complete work whose ending did not cover the later fiscal crisis. The hosts used it as the foundation for their series breaking down New York's history.

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We spent a good chunk of last year on a special series breaking down the power broker by Robert Caro, the incredible biography of New York City planner Robert Moses. The power broker is such a complete work, but the end of the book is not the end of the story.

He was, as the final chapter of the book says, old and no longer in power.

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