The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York / by Robert A. Caro.

• Introduction: Wait until the evening -- Line of succession -- Robert Moses at Yale -- Home away from home -- Burning -- Age of optimism -- Curriculum changes -- Change in major -- The taste of power -- A dream -- The best bill drafter in Albany -- The majesty of law -- Robert Moses and the creature of the machine -- Driving -- Changing -- Curator of cauliflowers -- The featherduster -- The mother of accommodation -- New York City before Robert Moses -- To power in the city -- One year -- The candidate -- Order number 129 -- In the saddle -- Driving -- Changing -- Two brothers --Changing -- The warp and the loom -- "And when the last law was down ..." -- Revenge -- Monopoly -- Quid pro quo -- Leading out the regiment -- Moses and the mayors -- "RM" -- The meat ax -- One mile -- One mile (afterward) -- The highwayman -- Point of no return -- Rumors and the report of rumors -- Tavern in the town -- Late arrival -- Mustache and the bard -- Off to the fair -- Nelson -- The great fair -- Old lion, young mayor -- The last stand -- Old.

• Moses is pictured as idealist reformer and political manipulator as his rise to power and eventual domination of New York State politics is documented. 

Ämnesord

Stadsplanering  (sao)

City planners  -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography. (LCSH)

New York  -- 1900-talet

City planning  (lcsh)

Förenta staterna  -- New York (sao)

New York (N.Y.)  -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

New York (N.Y.)  -- Politics and government -- 20th century. (LCSH)

New York (State)  -- New York.

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Personnamn

Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Lz Biografi: särskilda personer

Odgd Kommunal planering

Nqaag Geografi: New York

Klassifikation

920.7 (DDC)

307.12 (DDC)

917.47 (DDC)

Lz Moses, Robert (kssb/8)

Odgd (kssb/8)

Nqaag (kssb/8)