Robert Moses reading reminder
Please do take advantage of these readings. The library has paid copyright fees for you to access these articles, saving you the cost of buying a book. Please note that they notice when readings are not accessed and they report back to the school when they feel money has been wasted. So, please do download them, even if you don't have time to read them right now.
Although published in 1974, The Power Broker is still considered the most important book on city planning and New York City history. Salon calls this Pulizer Prize-winning book "the Bible of the American City." It tells the story of how Robert Moses used power to transform New York City in the 20th Century.
It took Robert Caro seven years to write this 1,300-page book. If not for its length, this would be required reading for any student of New York history. Luckily, the New Yorker magazine excerpted the book in the following four parts, available through the Lee Library's electronic reserve:
