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100	1		_aCaro, Robert A.
245	1	4	_aThe power broker : _bRobert Moses and the fall of New York / _cRobert A. Caro.
260			_aNew York : _bVintage Books, _c1975, c1974.
300			_a1246, xxxiv p., [25] leaves of plates : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
365			_bRs. 1999.00
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aBibliography: p. [1173]-1177.
505			_aINTRODUCTION: WAIT UNTIL THE EVENING -- PART I: THE IDEALIST -- 1. Line of Succession -- 2. Robert Moses at Yale -- 3. Home Away from Home -- PART II: THE REFORMER -- 4. Burning -- 5. Age of Optimism -- PART III: THE RISE TO POWER -- 6. Curriculum Changes -- 7. Change in Major -- 8. The Taste of Power -- 9. A Dream -- 10. The Best Bill Drafter in Albany -- PART IV: THE USE OF POWER -- 11. The Majesty of the Law -- 12. Robert Moses and the Creature of the Machine -- 13. Driving -- 14. Changing -- 15. Curator of Cauliflowers -- 16. The Featherduster -- 17. The Mother of Accommodation -- 18. New York City Before Robert Moses -- 19. To Power in the City -- 20. One Year -- 21. The Candidate -- 22. Order Number 129 -- 23. In the Saddle -- 24. Driving -- PART V: THE LOVE OF POWER -- 25. Changing -- 26. Two Brothers -- 27. Changing -- 28. The Warp on the Loom -- PART VI: THE LUST FOR POWER -- 29. "And When the Last Law Was Down..." -- 30. Revenge -- 31. Monopoly -- 32. Quid Pro Quo -- 33. Leading Out the Regiment -- 34. Moses and the Mayors -- 35. "RM" -- 36. The Meat Ax -- 37. One Mile -- 38. One Mile (Afterward) -- 39. The Highwayman -- 40. Point of No Return -- PART VII: THE LOSS OF POWER -- 41. Rumors and the Report of Rumors -- 42. Tavern in the Town -- 43. Late Arrival -- 44. Mustache and the Bard -- 45. Off to the Fair -- 46. Nelson -- 47. The Great Fair -- 48. Old Lion, Young Mayor -- 49. The Last Stand -- 50. Old -- Notes -- Index.
520			_aFor the sheer magnitude, depth and authority of its revelations, The Power Broker stands alone---a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the virtually unknown saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the hidden story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York through the past half-century ...
600	1	0	_aMoses, Robert, _d1888-1981.
650			_a Moses, Robert,—1888-1981; Politics and government; New York (State)—New York; History 1898-1951
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