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[Pdf]$$ The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York ZIP[Pdf]$$ The PowerBroker: Robert Mosesand the Fall of NewYork ZIPDescription'Surely the greatest book ever written about a city.' â€”David Halberstam'I think about Robert Caroand reading The Power Broker back when I was twenty-two years old and just being mesmerized,and I'm sure it helped to shape how I think about politics.'Â â€”President Barack Obama 'The mostabsorbing, detailed, instructive, provocative book ever published about the making and raping ofmodern New York City and environs and the man who did it, about the hidden plumbing of NewYork City and State politics over the last half-century, about the force of personality and the natureof political power in a democracy. A monumental work, a political biography and political history ofthe first magnitude.' â€”Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York 'One of the most exciting, un-put-downablebooks I have ever read. This is definitive biography, urban history, and investigative journalism.This is a study of the corruption which power exerts on those who wield it to set beside Tacitusand his emperors, Shakespeare and his kings.' â€”Daniel Berger, Baltimore Evening Sun'Simplyone of the best nonfiction books in English of the past 40 years . . . There has probably never beena better dissection of political power . . . From the first page . . . you know that you are in the handsof a master . . . Riveting . . . Superb . . . Not just a stunning portrait of perhaps the most influentialbuilder in world history . . . but an object lesson in the dangers of power. Every politician shouldread it.'Â â€”Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times 'A study of municipal power that will changethe way any reader of the book hereafter peruses his newspaper.' â€”Philip Herrera, Time 'Atriumph, brilliant and totally fascinating. A majestic, even Shakespearean, drama about theinterplay of power and personality.' â€”Justin Kaplan 'In the future, the scholar who writes thehistory of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort.'â€”Richard C. Wade, The New York Times Book Review 'The feverish hype that dominates themerchandising of arts and letters in America has so debased the language that, when a trulyexceptional achievement comes along, there are no words left to praise it. Important, awesome,compelling--these no longer summon the full flourish of trumpets this book deserves. It isextraordinary on many levels and certain to endure.' â€”William Greider, The Washington PostBook World'A modern Machiavelli's Prince.'Â â€”The Guardian'One of the great biographies of alltime . . . [by] one of the great reporters of our time . . . and probably the greatest biographer. He isalso an extraordinary writer. After reading page 136 of his book The Power Broker, I gasped andread it again, then again. This, I thought, is how it should be done . . . One of the greatestnonfiction works ever written . . . Every MP, wonk and would-be wonk in Westminster has read[Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson], because they think it is the greatest insight into
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