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'''''The Power Broker''''' is a [[1973]] [[biography]] of [[Robert Moses]], "[[New York City]]'s Master Builder", by [[Robert Caro]]. In it, Caro castigates Moses as an unelected [[bureaucrat]] who, through the power that he amassed over the years, consistently favored [[automobile]] traffic over human and community needs, and was powerful enough to ignore most attempts to reign him in by elected [[politician]]s. Moses and his supporters considered the book to be overwhelmingly biased against him and what his supporters saw as a record of unprecedented accomplishment, but it has become one of the major influences in how Moses is now perceived. The book, at well over 1000 pages (reputedly edited from a manuscript roughly 3000 pages long), provides documentation of its assertions in most instances, which Moses (and his supporters after his death) have consistently attempted to refute. |
'''''The Power Broker''''' is a [[1973]] [[biography]] of [[Robert Moses]], "[[New York City]]'s Master Builder", by [[Robert Caro]]. In it, Caro castigates Moses as an unelected [[bureaucrat]] who, through the power that he amassed over the years, consistently favored [[automobile]] traffic over human and community needs, and was powerful enough to ignore most attempts to reign him in by elected [[politician]]s. Moses and his supporters considered the book to be overwhelmingly biased against him and what his supporters saw as a record of unprecedented accomplishment, but it has become one of the major influences in how Moses is now perceived. The book, at well over 1000 pages (reputedly edited from a manuscript roughly 3000 pages long), provides documentation of its assertions in most instances, which Moses (and his supporters after his death) have consistently attempted to refute. |
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The Power Broker is a 1973 biography of Robert Moses, "New York City's Master Builder", by Robert Caro. In it, Caro castigates Moses as an unelected bureaucrat who, through the power that he amassed over the years, consistently favored automobile traffic over human and community needs, and was powerful enough to ignore most attempts to reign him in by elected politicians. Moses and his supporters considered the book to be overwhelmingly biased against him and what his supporters saw as a record of unprecedented accomplishment, but it has become one of the major influences in how Moses is now perceived. The book, at well over 1000 pages (reputedly edited from a manuscript roughly 3000 pages long), provides documentation of its assertions in most instances, which Moses (and his supporters after his death) have consistently attempted to refute.
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