The Power Broker: Summary & Review

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1975) is the biography of Robert Moses and how he acquired, ammassed, and maintained power to push through record-beating amount of public works in sheer size, scope and number for a democratic country, shaping New York as we know it (for better and for worse).

Exec SummaryMoses Machiavellianism and expertise in writing laws allowd him to navigate and manipulate the inner workings of state government to create and lead numerous sem...