The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York / by Robert A. Caro.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : The Bodley Head, 1975Manufacturer: [2004]Copyright date: 1974Description: 1246, xxxiv pages, 40 pages of unnumbered plates illustrations, maps 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780394720241
- Lz Moses, Robert
- Odgd
- Nqaag
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Bok | Västerås huvudbibliotek Eng biografier | Västerås huvudbibliotek | Utländska språk | Lz Moses, Robert | Available | 80062680894 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [1170]-1177) and index.
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 -- Driving -- Changing -- 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.
Moses is pictured as idealist reformer and political manipulator as his rise to power and eventual domination of New York State politics is documented.