The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Summary

Robert Caro dissects the career of Robert Moses, the unelected master builder whose highways, parks, and bridges reshaped New York across more than four decades. The book shows how Moses gathered and wielded immense power through public authorities, building monumental works while displacing neighborhoods and bending the city to his will. A study of power itself, it stands as a defining work of American biography and urban history.