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The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York / by Robert A. Caro.
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection NA9085.M68 C37
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA9085.M68 C37 1974
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caro, Robert A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.
- Moses, Robert.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 1246 pages, xxxiv ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 1974.
- Summary:
- This is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man-an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. The idealist
- pt. 2. The reformer
- pt. 3. The rise to power
- pt. 4. The use of power
- pt. 5. The love of power
- pt. 6. The lust for power
- pt. 7. The loss of power.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 1170-1177) and index.
- Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1975.
- Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1975.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: 2020 printing.
- Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0394480767
- OCLC:
- 834874
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