![]() "A study of municipal power that will change the way any reader of the book hereafter peruses his newspaper." -Philip Herrera, Time Every politician should read it." -Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times but an object lesson in the dangers of power. ![]() Not just a stunning portrait of perhaps the most influential builder in world history. you know that you are in the hands of a master. There has probably never been a better dissection of political power. "Simply one of the best nonfiction books in English of the past 40 years. This is a study of the corruption which power exerts on those who wield it to set beside Tacitus and his emperors, Shakespeare and his kings." -Daniel Berger, Baltimore Evening Sun This is definitive biography, urban history, and investigative journalism. "One of the most exciting, un-put-downable books I have ever read. A monumental work, a political biography and political history of the first magnitude." -Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York ![]() "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. "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 ![]() "Surely the greatest book ever written about a city." -David Halberstam ![]()
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