The Power Broker
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
How one unelected man rebuilt New York around his own will, and who he drove out to do it.
Robert Moses was never elected to anything and reshaped New York for forty years, building the parkways, bridges, beaches and housing projects, and displacing hundreds of thousands of people to do it. Caro spent seven years on the book, interviewed Moses himself, and produced 1,200 pages that are as much about how power actually works as about one man. It won the Pulitzer Prize and remains the standard against which political biography is measured.
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As an insomniac, I spend hours lying in the dark, aching to fall into an unconsciousness. And that's how a 66-hour audiobook became my best friend.
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