CARO, Robert A.
The Power Broker.
"In the twentieth century, the influence of Robert Moses on the cities of America was greater than that of any other person": The Power Broker; Signed By Robert A. Caro
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
$475.00
Out of Stock
Item Number: RRB-146346
* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
Later printing of the author's Pulitzer-Prize winning work on Robert Moses. Thick octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by Robert A. Caro on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, the Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in New York, the shaper not only of the city's politics but of its physical structure and the problems of urban decline that plague us today. "Surely the greatest book ever written about a city" (David Halberstam). Theodore H. White called it "A masterpiece of American reporting. It's more than the story of a tragic figure or the exploration of the unknown politics of our time. It's an elegantly written and enthralling work of art."
The Power Broker.
$475.00
Out of Stock
Other Books by this Author
