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The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York / Robert A. Caro.

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Fine Arts Library NA9085.M68 C37 1975
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Caro, Robert A.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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

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