The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro · 2000
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26 yrs
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2
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Why it endured
Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses — the unelected official who shaped modern New York City for 44 years. The definitive study of how power is accumulated, wielded, and what it does to the people who hold it.
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2 people recommend this book
“I could not finish this book because it is a little too long and too detailed, making the "bang for buck" ratio slightly too low for my liking. It is a relatively pleasant read, but I also thought that the author assumed too much about what the reader knows regarding public policy, politics, and so on. Many times I felt myself lost in the subtleties of the politics that was unfolding, and there was no decent attempt made at explaining the situation more clearly.”
“There might be a week where I read several books and then there might be a couple weeks where i'm not reading or I'm just really struggling with one book like a book like The Power Broker might take me a couple weeks but I'm always reading and I'm reading short books and long books.”