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050	0	0	_aNA9085.M68 _bC37 1975
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100	1		_aCaro, Robert A.
245	1	4	_aThe power bróker _b: Robert Moses and the fall of New York _c/ Robert A. Caro
260			_aNew York _b: Vintage Books _c, 1975, c1974.
300			_a1246, xxxiv p., [25] leaves of plates _b: ill. _c; 24 cm.
504			_aBibliography: p. [1173]-1177 and index.
520			_aThe Power Broker 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 but of its physical structure and the problems of urban decline that plague us today. In revealing how Moses did it--how he developed his public authorities into a political machine that was virtually a fourth branch of government, one that could bring to their knees Governors and Mayors (from La Guardia to Lindsay) by mobilizing banks, contractors, labor unions, insurance firms, even the press and the Church, into an irresistible economic force--Robert Caro reveals how power works in all the cities of the United States. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He personally conceived and completed public works costing 27 billion dollars--the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever having been elected to office, he dominated the men who were--even his most bitter enemy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, could not control him--until he finally encountered, in Nelson Rockefeller, the only man whose power (and ruthlessness in wielding it) equalled his own.
546			_aEnglish
600	1	4	_aMoses, Robert _d(, 1888-1981)
942			_cMO
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