Caro sees Moses as a kind of monster who can do no right, whose achievements are crimes against the public weal, whose very virtues-intelligence, competence, physical strength-only made him more dangerous. The real subject of The Power Broker is not Robert Moses at all, but the author's unremitting hatred of him-there is no other word to describe the ugly bias which pervades this work. Moses's last expressways were in the California style, and as his parkways are “improved,” the characteristic Moses details-stonefaced bridges, wooden light standards, elegant curves-are eliminated.Īn issue like this is symptomatic a critical study of Robert Moses would require some elementary knowledge of the development of highway engineering, landscape architecture, and public finance, all of which are beyond Caro's ken. The nationwide model is the California freeway-starkly utilitarian, financed by gasoline taxes, and open to all traffic. In fact, Moses's landscaped parkways, restricted to automobiles, and paid for by tolls, have scarcely been imitated. The author attempts to justify the scale of his enterprise by investing Moses with wide significance, claiming, for instance, that Moses's parkways became the national model, and were therefore responsible for what Caro views as one of the worst features of modern American society. Caro require 640,000? It is true that Robert Moses had a long and distinguished career building and operating parks, highways, bridges, and other public works in New York City and State, but he was merely a local official, who will soon be quite forgotten. Cleveland Rodgers, the first biographer of Robert Moses, brought his career up to 1952 in 130,000 words why then does Robert A. Harry Williams handled Huey Long in 375,000. Henry Adams managed the fifty-year career of Albert Gallatin, the diplomat-financier, in 275,000 words T.

The sheer size of this book is the first sign that something is amiss. He is appointed to the City School Commission in.The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. When Bernhard reaches his fifties he becomes interested in civic affairs and is particularly worried about the slums of the city and he wants to see the development and construction of more parks in those areas. They become a part of the 'One Hundred' and 'Our Crowd,' a self-contained Jewish social circle. By the time Bernhard meets Rosalie, he is already established and financially secure, having made millions of dollars in real estate with his brother. Bernhard and his younger brother, Samuel, come to America with enough savings to open a dry-goods store and in 1948 they relocate from Mobile, Alabama to New York. His grandparents, Bernhard Cohen and Rosalie Silverman, immigrated to America from Bavaria, Germany.

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