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The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York / Robert A. Caro.
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View onlineFine Arts Library NA9085.M68 C37 1975
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caro, Robert A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.
- Moses, Robert.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1246, xxxiv pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First Vintage Books edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1975.
- Summary:
- Moses is pictured as idealist reformer and political manipulator as his rise to power and eventual domination of New York State politics is documented.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Wait until the evening
- Line of succession
- Robert Moses at Yale
- Home away from home
- Burning
- Age of optimism
- Curriculum changes
- Change in major
- The taste of power
- A dream
- The best bill drafter in Albany
- The majesty of law
- Robert Moses and the creature of the machine
- Driving
- Changing
- Curator of cauliflowers
- The featherduster
- The mother of accommodation
- New York City before Robert Moses
- To power in the city
- One year
- The candidate
- Order number 129
- In the saddle
- Two brothers
- Changing
- The warp and the loom
- "And when the last law was down ..."
- Revenge
- Monopoly
- Quid pro quo
- Leading out the regiment
- Moses and the mayors
- "RM"
- The meat ax
- One mile
- One mile (afterward)
- The highwayman
- Point of no return
- Rumors and the report of rumors
- Tavern in the town
- Late arrival
- Mustache and the bard
- Off to the fair
- Nelson
- The great fair
- Old lion, young mayor
- The last stand
- Old.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 1173-1177) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0394720245
- 9780394720241
- OCLC:
- 1631862
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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