The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- ISBN-10
- 0394480767
- ISBN-13
- 9780394480763
- Series
- The Power Broker
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 1246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1974
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
- Author
- Robert A. Caro
Description
Moses is pictured as idealist reformer, and political manipulator as his rise to power and eventual domination of New York State politics is documented
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