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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1111.The_Power_Broker_Robert_Moses_and_the_Fall_of_New_York?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Vintage)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1157831084m/1111.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1111.The_Power_Broker_Robert_Moses_and_the_Fall_of_New_York?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/722.Robert_A_Caro">Robert A. Caro</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7077892?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>I finally gave in and started lugging this book around on the subway, and it's absolutely worth it. <br/> <br/>I'm only on page 200 of 1200, but so far Robert Caro's storytelling detail about the master builder of New York City is addictive! <br/> <br/>-- <br/>Update 7/15: <br/> <br/>Phew. What a read! <br/> <br/>Like everything else Robert Moses touched, any inkling of voice in this biography is subsumed by his sheer force of personality. The author is so proud of his detailed research that he presents, like a feline brings broken-necked field mice, an astonishing number of minutiae. The tsunami of facts -- from the color of fading Bureau receipts (manila) to the origin of specific colored stone for Jones Beach State Park's turrets -- is certainly convincing and eye-opening, but they weigh this book down. <br/> <br/>As a work of journalism, The Power Broker is eye-opening and fascinating. As a work of literature--well, I can't say I recommend actually reading through all 1,100 of it's pages. But you should take any opportunity you can to learn the story of how New York got 600 parks, ushered into the automobile age (aka snarling traffic age), rescinded much of its transportation power to independent bodies, a sprawling Long Island whose expressway was purposely built to exclude buses and trains, and a dozen bridges. I hear there's a PBS mini series... <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/7476?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>