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The Power Broker

The Power Broker
Cover art of The Power Broker since publication
AuthorRobert Caro
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectRobert Moses
GenreBiography
PublisherKnopf
Publication date
September 16, 1974[1]
Media typeHardback, Paperback
Pages1,336
ISBN0-394-72024-5
OCLC1631862
974.7/04/0924 B
LC ClassNA9085.M68 C37 1975

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a 1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro. The book focuses on the creation and use of power in New York local and state politics, as witnessed through Moses's use of unelected positions to design and implement dozens of highways and bridges, sometimes at great cost to the communities he nominally served. It has been repeatedly named one of the best biographies of the 20th century, and has been highly influential on city planners and politicians throughout the United States. The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975.[2]

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  2. ^ "1975 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes.