Biography books new york
Biography books new york
Biography books new york public library.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
"Surely the greatest book ever written about a city." —David Halberstam, Pulitzer–Prize winning journalist and author of The Best and the Brightest
“A literary masterpiece.” —The New York Times
“Groundbreaking…the most important and complete explanation of how cities are formed, neighborhoods are destroyed, bridges erected, roads laid down, parks designed, fortunes made, lives ruined, and power is amassed.” —99% Invisible
"I think about Robert Caro and reading The Power Broker back when I was twenty-two years old and just being mesmerized, and I'm sure it helped to shape how I think about politics." —President Barack Obama
"The most absorbing, detailed, instructive, provocative book ever published about the making and raping of modern New York City and environs and the man who did it, about the hidden plumbing of New York City and State politics over the last half-century, about the force of personality and the nature of political power in a democracy.
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