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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99% Invisible

The hosts recapped the book's narrative, noting they covered chapters up through the 900s, discussed Moses's rise and fall, and highlighted Caro's detailed analysis of Moses's projects and political maneuvers.

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This is a ridiculous special bonus episode of the 99% Invisible Breakdown of The Power Broker.

— Episode: The Power Broker Breakdown Breakdown

Episode: The Power Broker Breakdown Breakdown

The hosts recapped the book's narrative, noting they covered chapters up through the 900s, discussed Moses's rise and fall, and highlighted Caro's detailed analysis of Moses's projects and political maneuvers.

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This is a ridiculous special bonus episode of the 99% Invisible Breakdown of The Power Broker.

And today we'll be covering chapters 39 through 41. That's pages 895 through 983 in my copy of the book.

So last time on the 99% Invisible Breakdown of The Power Broker, Robert Caro went into incredible detail about how Robert Moses refused to include mass transit as part of his transportation plans.

It's hard to imagine a version of the book where Mayor Impey gets a full chapter to himself as much as I love that section so much.

We covered chapters 33 and 34, which detailed the ways in which Robert Moses spent the 1940s and 50s becoming the center of political corruption and honest graft in New York City construction world.

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