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Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Vintage
July 1975
On Sale: July 12, 1975
Featuring: Robert Moses
1344 pages
ISBN: 0394720245
EAN: 9780394720241
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Biography
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both
the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power
Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and
mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state)
and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was,
for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of
our time in New York, the shaper not only of the city's
politics but of its physical structure and the problems of
urban decline that plague us today.
In revealing how
Moses did it--how he developed his public authorities into a
political machine that was virtually a fourth branch of
government, one that could bring to their knees Governors
and Mayors (from La Guardia to Lindsay) by mobilizing banks,
contractors, labor unions, insurance firms, even the press
and the Church, into an irresistible economic force--Robert
Caro reveals how power works in all the cities of the United
States. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He
personally conceived and completed public works costing 27
billion dollars--the greatest builder America (and probably
the world) has ever known. Without ever having been elected
to office, he dominated the men who were--even his most
bitter enemy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, could not control
him--until he finally encountered, in Nelson Rockefeller,
the only man whose power (and ruthlessness in wielding it)
equalled his own.
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