The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro

ISBN 10: 184792364X / ISBN 13: 9781847923646

Edité par Bodley Head, UK, 2015

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9781847923646. Hardcover, in a near fine Dust Jacket. Not ex. library. 1312 pages, notes index, illustrated with b/w photographs. The story behind the shaping of twentieth-century New York city and state, making public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for half a century, the most powerful man in New York. He was the shaper of the city's politics, its physical structure and the urban decline of today. Contents appears unread, like new.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
• Éditeur: Bodley Head, UK
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 184792364X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781847923646
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Type de livre: Book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • biography

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Synopsis

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro is 'simply one of the best non-fiction books in English of the last forty years' (Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times): a riveting and timeless account of power, politics and the city of New York by ‘the greatest political biographer of our times’ (Sunday Times); chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time and by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a Sunday Times Bestseller; 'An outright masterpiece' (Evening Standard)

The Power Broker tells the story of Robert Moses, the single most powerful man in New York for almost half a century and the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever once being elected to office, he created for himself a position of supreme and untouchable authority, allowing him to utterly reshape the city of New York, turning it into the city we know today, while at the same time blighting the lives of millions and remaining accountable to no one.

First published in 1974, this monumental classic is now widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest books of its kind.

À propos de l?auteur

Robert A. Caro has been described as ‘the greatest political biographer of our times’ (Sunday Times) and ‘the most revered historian of his generation’ (New York Times). His first book, The Power Broker, published in 1974, was described in 2015 as ‘one of the greatest non-fiction works ever written’ (Sunday Times) and his ongoing multi-volume work The Years of Lyndon Johnson has been described as ‘the greatest biography of our era’ (The Times). With these books he has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice won the National Book Award and three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also been awarded virtually every other major literary honour, including the National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, the highest award in the humanities given in the United States. Born in 1935, he graduated from Princeton University, later became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and was an investigative reporter for Newsday for six years. He lives with his wife, the writer Ina Caro, in New York City, where he is at work on the fifth and final volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson.