![]() ![]() Robert Moses, because his quest for power became all-consuming, is also enshrined in legend-but, even more, is engulfed in obloquy. Indeed, Robert Caro is now a living legend. This work has rightly exalted Caro (and his wife and research assistant and, for this his first book, bankroller, Ina)-because those years were spent for the good of others instead of for the amassing of power in itself. ![]() ![]() The sheer amount of work-hours and hours of work, years of work, years of at first unremunerated work-that Caro put into this and his LBJ projects required power. It delivers at first, but then it enslaves.īut let us not think that power is in itself bad. And in Robert Moses, the subject of this epic book, power looks like the ugly idol it can be. He has given his life to exploring how it is gained and kept. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. ![]()
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