The Power Broker (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Cover
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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 book was described as an incredible biography of Robert Moses that the hosts had spent a series breaking down, and it was repeatedly referenced as the foundation for their discussion of New York's 1970s fiscal crisis.

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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.

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

Episode: The Power Broker #13: Drop Dead City

The book was described as an incredible biography of Robert Moses that the hosts had spent a series breaking down, and it was repeatedly referenced as the foundation for their discussion of New York's 1970s fiscal crisis.

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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.

So it was like from the power broker book, where do you place the beginning of the sort of borrowing money for services that seems to be the sort of the thing that starts the downfall here?

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