Urban planner Robert Moses (1888-1981) was the unelected official who single-handedly reshaped New York City and its environs with his massive public works projects – highways, bridges, tunnels and ...
“A Man in Full,” the title of one of Tom Wolfe’s classic novels, could well be the subtitle of Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker,” his monumental biography of Robert Moses, the man whose vision and ...
Concrete Kingpin: Urban planner Robert Moses, pictured here, was immortalized in Robert Caro's The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974). Credit: AP Photo/Hans Von Nolde It’s ...
Ask urbanists who’s responsible for New York’s twentieth-century trajectory, and most will tell you: Robert Moses. Since the publication of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker five decades ago, the ...
On a cloudy evening earlier this month, visitors roamed the halls of the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan, perusing the museum’s latest exhibit, “Robert Caro’s The Power Broker at 50.” With ...
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