The Power Broker

Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

By: Robert A. Caro

one of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the pulitzer and the francis parkman prizes, tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century new york (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that robert moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in new york, the shaper not only of the city's politics...