Ali’s Reviews > The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York > Status Update

“At desk number eighteen on the center aisle, the Democratic floor leader's desk, a short, very slim, very blue-eyed, dark-haired man….

Pixie smile, the "vivacity of a song and dance man," a charm that made him arrive in the Senate Chamber "like a glad breeze." Well-timed pauses, head cocked to preface the witticism, brow raised to indicate disbelief… The Prince Charming of Politics.”