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title: "Bodley Head The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York"
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# Bodley Head The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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- **What is this?** Bodley Head The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by robert a caro
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Bodley Head The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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## Customer Reviews

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    It's missing the first 8 pages (possible more)
  

*by G***S on Reviewed in Sweden on 5 June 2023*

I'm going to return the book because it's missing the first pages.

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    Power tends to corrupt
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 November 2017*

This is a brilliant elucidation and proof of Acton's famous aphorism that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It is more perfect in this respect than his monumental and equally fine tomes on Lyndon Johnson who at least had principles and who having got to the top he intended to put into practice before being derailed by Vietnam. He was a truly tragic figure for which admiration and disgust vie in the mind of the readerThere is no redeeming feature in Caro's depiction of Moses who was a truly vile man through and through and who desired power solely for power's sake. His character for all his ability is comprehensively demolished by this great work. Unfortunately the infrastructure he built and which destroyed so much of value in New York even if it could be demolished would not restore what has been lost.Perhaps most culpable in this tale is not the way that mayors caved into this demonic ego but the way the vaunted press lapped up everything Moses said and almost never challenged it. Where are America's investigative journalists? Largely comatose. But here I have my one quibble. There is no mention at all of the journalist Jane Jacobs, nor of her influential book,The Death and Life of American Cities, and nor of her considerable role in toppling Moses from his pedestal. This is an odd omission, and we know that she read Caro's hatchet job with relish, commenting that even though she knew Moses was an awful man this book was a shocking revelation. She had opposed his policies but not exposed his vile personality in all its vividness. It took Caro - one man delving deep into documents and sources, -to pull all the threads together to weave a shroud for a vampire.  Moses was a monster, a racist, a bully a self-centred egotist, only interested in himself, indifferent to those he demeaned or whose lives he destroyed. It reminds me at least of another who has recently attained great power.  Men such as Moses are the American nightmare.

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    Thanks.
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in India on 29 April 2019*

Thanks.

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 1)
- Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 2)

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