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Bookmark or Share- Robert Moses | NYC Urban Planner & Public Official | BritannicaRobert Moses (born Dec. 18, 1888, New Haven, Conn., U.S.—died July 29, 1981, West Islip, N.Y.) was a U.S. state and municipal official whose career in public works planning resulted in a virtual transformation of the New York landscape.
- The Power Broker - WikipediaThe Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a 1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro. The book focuses on the creation and use of power in New York local and state politics, as witnessed through Moses's use of unelected positions to design and implement dozens of highways and bridges, sometimes at great cost to the ...
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkThe Power Broker covers the life of Robert Moses, a burly character in both form and business. In the 1166 long pages, the reader is taken through the life of one of the meanest, most powerful figures of New York politics.
- Robert Moses, the man who rebuilt New York - CBS NewsRobert Moses ran the 1964 New York World's Fair, but it was a financial failure. By 1968, he had been maneuvered out of power. He died in 1981, at 92, embittered.
- Robert Moses - WikipediaMoses's reputation declined after the publication of Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography The Power Broker (1974), which cast doubt on the purported benefits of many of Moses's projects and further cast Moses as racist.
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