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The Power Broker

Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro

1974

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The Power Broker leaves us ill-equipped to understand or confront the struggles that face the city today.

by Henry Grabar via Slate on September 16, 2024
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Emperor of Concrete

A 1974 review of Robert Caro's "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York."

by Gore Vidal via New York Review of Books on October 17, 1974

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Photograph of Robert Moses on a background collage of a blueprint and a photo of passengers waiting in Penn Station.

Robert Moses Helped Ruin Penn Station. He'd Have Made it Easier to Fix, Too.

Preservationists like Jane Jacobs are urbanist heroes. But their rules can stifle.

by Samuel Goldman via The Week on December 10, 2021

Against the Great Man Theory of Historians

Without accounting for the often-invisible work of others in his research, Robert Caro's new memoir is not so much inspiration as an exercise in self-celebration.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via Jacobin on June 12, 2019

Architectural rendering of a bridge.

The True Measure of Robert Moses (and His Racist Bridges)

Did Robert Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to prevent poor people in buses from them? The truth is complex.

by Thomas J. Campanella via CityLab on July 9, 2017

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