Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer
Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of
the twentieth century, The Power Broker is a huge and galvanizing biography
revealing not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but
the story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York in the twentieth century.
Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert
Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State
of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro