1975, ISBN: 9780394720241

Titel: The Power Broker, Untertitel: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Einband: Taschenbuch, Autor: Robert A. Caro, Verlag: Random House LLC US, Sprache: Englisch, Seiten: 1344, Maße… Mehr…

Titel: The Power Broker, Untertitel: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Einband: Taschenbuch, Autor: Robert A. Caro, Verlag: Random House LLC US, Sprache: Englisch, Seiten: 1344, Maße: 236x156x53 mm, Gewicht: 1668 g, Verkäufer: bochumer-buchshop, Schlagworte: New York City / Erinnerung, Brief, Tagebuch New York City / Geschichte, Politik, Gesellschaft Englische Bücher / Biografie, Erinnerung Soziologie Soziologie / Bevölkerung, Siedlung, Stadt Zwanzigstes Jahrhundert Stadtplanung Stadt BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban free kindle books a good person legend robert a. The Power Broker von Robert A. 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Caro Art Nr.: 0394720245 ISBN 13: 9780394720241 SubTitle: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Release Year: 1975 Published by: Random House LLC US Cover: Taschenbuch Cover Format: 236x156x53 mm Pages: 1344 Weight: 1668 g Language: Englisch Author: Robert A. Caro NEUWARE - Portofrei innerhalb Deutschlands! Alle Artikel werden von uns professionell verpackt, so dass die Beschädigungsgefahr beim Versand minimiert wird. Weitere Bücher: Robert A. Caro of this publishing house Mehr zum Thema New York City / Erinnerung Brief Tagebuch New York City / Geschichte Politik Gesellschaft Englische Bücher / Biografie Erinnerung Soziologie Soziologie / Bevölkerung Siedlung Stadt Zwanzigstes Jahrhundert Stadtplanung Stadt BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban free kindle books a good person legend robert a. caro the broker political caro robert caro books robert moses power broker robert caro power broker the power broker by robert caro the power broker united states history history books history gifts politics political science books world politics history buff gifts political science pulitzer prize winning books political books us history nonfiction books robert caro moses historical nonfiction best sellers power power hungry broker Beschreibung Description PULITZER PRIZE WINNER  A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller. But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives. We see how Moses began: the handsome, intellectual young heir to the world of Our Crowd, an idealist. How, rebuffed by the entrenched political establishment, he fought for the power to accomplish his ideals. How he first created a miraculous flowering of parks and parkways, playlands and beaches and then ultimately brought down on the city the smog-choked aridity of our urban landscape, the endless miles of (never sufficient) highway, the hopeless sprawl of Long Island, the massive failures of public housing, and countless other barriers to humane living. How, inevitably, the accumulation of power became an end in itself. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He was held in fear his dossiers could disgorge the dark secret of anyone who opposed him. He was, he claimed, above politics, above deals and through decade after decade, the newspapers and the public believed. Meanwhile, he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as 'Triborough' a government whose records were closed to the public, whose policies and plans were decided not by voters or elected officials but solely by Moses an immense economic force directing pressure on labor unions, on banks, on all the city's political and economic institutions, and on the press, and on the Church. He doled out millions of dollars' worth of legal fees, insurance commissions, lucrative contracts on the basis of who could best pay him back in the only coin he coveted: power. He dominated the politics and politicians of his time without ever having been elected to any office. He was, in essence, above our democratic system. Robert Moses held power in the state for 44 years, through the governorships of Smith, Roosevelt, Lehman, Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller, and in the city for 34 years, through the mayoralties of La Guardia, O'Dwyer, Impellitteri, Wagner and Lindsay, He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder. This is how he built and dominated New York before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done. Information of Author For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, ROBERT A. CARO has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist. In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal, stating at the time: 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. In 2016 he received the National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. The London Sunday Times has said that Caro is The greatest political biographer of our times.    Caro s first book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, everywhere acclaimed as a modern classic, was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to David Halberstam, Surely the greatest book ever written about a city. And The New York Times Book Review said: In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort.  The first volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power, was cited by The Washington Post as proof that we live in a great age of biography . . . [a book] of radiant excellence . . . Caro s evocation of the Texas Hill Country, his elaboration of Johnson s unsleeping ambition, his understanding of how politics actually work, are let it be said flat out at the summit of American historical writing. Professor Henry F. Graff of Columbia University called the second volume, Means of Ascent, brilliant. No review does justice to the drama of the story Caro is telling, which is nothing less than how present-day politics was born. The London Times hailed volume three, Master of the Senate, as a masterpiece . . . Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. The Passage of Power, volume four, has been called Shakespearean . . . A breathtakingly dramatic story [told] with consummate artistry and ardor (The New York Times) and as absorbing as a political thriller . . . By writing the best presidential biography the country has ever seen, Caro has forever changed the way we think about, and read, American history (NPR). On the cover of The New York Times Book Review, President Bill Clinton praised it as Brilliant . . . Important . . . Remarkable. With this fascinating and meticulous account Robert Caro has once again done America a great service.    Caro has a unique place among American political biographers, The Boston Globe said . . . He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured. And Nicholas von Hoffman wrote: Caro has changed the art of, Random House Lcc Us, 1975<

1975, ISBN: 0394720245

Sprache: englisch. Autor: Robert A. Caro. KG der Ansprechpartner. Nachträgliche Adressänderungen sind leider nicht möglich. Aus technischen Gründen können wir das ?Nachricht hinzufügen-Fe… Mehr…

Sprache: englisch. Autor: Robert A. Caro. KG der Ansprechpartner. Nachträgliche Adressänderungen sind leider nicht möglich. Aus technischen Gründen können wir das ?Nachricht hinzufügen-Feld? nicht auswerten. Bücher tolino Hörbücher Film Musik Spielwaren Newsletter Fenster schließen Fenster schließen Fenster schließen Fenster schließen Fenster schließen The Power Broker | Robert A. Caro | 1975 | englisch Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkAutor: Robert A. CaroFormat: kartoniertSeitenanzahl: 1344Verlag: Random House LLC USErscheinungsdatum: 19750715Sprache: englischGenre: ImporteRegion: New York CityHöhe in mm: 53Länge in mm: 236Breite in mm: 156Gewicht in g: 1668 BeschreibungPULITZER PRIZE WINNER A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller. But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives. We see how Moses began: the handsome, intellectual young heir to the world of Our Crowd, an idealist. How, rebuffed by the entrenched political establishment, he fought for the power to accomplish his ideals. How he first created a miraculous flowering of parks and parkways, playlands and beaches and then ultimately brought down on the city the smog-choked aridity of our urban landscape, the endless miles of (never sufficient) highway, the hopeless sprawl of Long Island, the massive failures of public housing, and countless other barriers to humane living. How, inevitably, the accumulation of power became an end in itself. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He was held in fear his dossiers could disgorge the dark secret of anyone who opposed him. He was, he claimed, above politics, above deals; and through decade after decade, the newspapers and the public believed. Meanwhile, he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as "Triborough" a government whose records were closed to the public, whose policies and plans were decided not by voters or elected officials but solely by Moses an immense economic force directing pressure on labor unions, on banks, on all the city's political and economic institutions, and on the press, and on the Church. He doled out millions of dollars' worth of legal fees, insurance commissions, lucrative contracts on the basis of who could best pay him back in the only coin he coveted: power. He dominated the politics and politicians of his time without ever having been elected to any office. He was, in essence, above our democratic system. Robert Moses held power in the state for 44 years, through the governorships of Smith, Roosevelt, Lehman, Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller, and in the city for 34 years, through the mayoralties of La Guardia, O'Dwyer, Impellitteri, Wagner and Lindsay, He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder. This is how he built and dominated New York before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done.Portrait For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, ROBERT A. CARO has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist. In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal, stating at the time: 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. In 2016 he received the National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. The London Sunday Times has said that Caro is The greatest political biographer of our times. Caro s first book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, everywhere acclaimed as a modern classic, was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to David Halberstam, Surely the greatest book ever written about a city. And The New York Times Book Review said: In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort. The first volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power, was cited by The Washington Post as proof that we live in a great age of biography . . . [a book] of radiant excellence . . . Caro s evocation of the Texas Hill Country, his elaboration of Johnson s unsleeping ambition, his understanding of how politics actually work, are let it be said flat out at the summit of American historical writing. Professor Henry F. 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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Penguin Random House / Vintage], PULITZER PRIZE WINNER A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century. Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller. But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives. We see how Moses began: the handsome, intellectual young heir to the world of Our Crowd, an idealist. How, rebuffed by the entrenched political establishment, he fought for the power to accomplish his ideals. How he first created a miraculous flowering of parks and parkways, playlands and beaches and then ultimately brought down on the city the smog-choked aridity of our urban landscape, the endless miles of (never sufficient) highway, the hopeless sprawl of Long Island, the massive failures of public housing, and countless other barriers to humane living. How, inevitably, the accumulation of power became an end in itself. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He was held in fear his dossiers could disgorge the dark secret of anyone who opposed him. He was, he claimed, above politics, above deals; and through decade after decade, the newspapers and the public believed. Meanwhile, he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as "Triborough" a government whose records were closed to the public, whose policies and plans were decided not by voters or elected officials but solely by Moses an immense economic force directing pressure on labor unions, on banks, on all the city's political and economic institutions, and on the press, and on the Church. He doled out millions of dollars' worth of legal fees, insurance commissions, lucrative contracts on the basis of who could best pay him back in the only coin he coveted: power. He dominated the politics and politicians of his time without ever having been elected to any office. He was, in essence, above our democratic system. Robert Moses held power in the state for 44 years, through the governorships of Smith, Roosevelt, Lehman, Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller, and in the city for 34 years, through the mayoralties of La Guardia, O'Dwyer, Impellitteri, Wagner and Lindsay, He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder. This is how he built and dominated New York before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done. 1344 S. ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. 9.1900 in Sofort lieferbar, DE, [SC: 2.90], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten)<