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At the end of his 2019 memoir, Working, Robert Caro subtly admits that the portrait he constructed of Robert Moses in The ...
Robert Moses, Reconsidered. The master builder, viewed today as a dictatorial force in New York history, in fact delivered what the governing class, ... the construction of the first deck of the Port ...
Marc Andreessen and Robert Moses both said 'It's time to build.' ... Lincoln Center, and Shea Stadium, among other massive projects. But by the 1980s, Robert Caro’s book ...
These projects burnished his image as a beneficent public servant — that is, until Caro exposed Moses as the ruthless autocrat he had become, and perhaps was all along.
The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s book about New York City’s master builder, Robert Moses, turned 50 in 2024.Caro’s compelling tale of untrammeled, corrupted power wielded by one man over decades seems ...
Still, Moses stood tall over the New York scene and by extension the American scene for 40 years. Ralph Fiennes plays power broker Robert Moses in David Hare's new play at The Shed in New York.
Moses oversaw an expansion of Riverside Park in the 1930s. Mr. Caro wrote that Mr. Moses was known for adding details that made his projects “fit in with their setting,” generally with an eye ...