TY - BOOK AU - Caro,Robert A. TI - The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York SN - 0394480767 (hbk) PY - 1974/// CY - New York PB - Knopf KW - Moses, Robert KW - New York city N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: p. [1173]-1177; pt. 1. The idealist -- pt. 2. The reformer -- pt. 3. The rise to power -- pt. 4. The use of power -- pt. 5. The love of power -- pt. 6. The lust for power -- pt. 7. The loss of power N2 - This 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 hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives ER -