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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (平装)
by Robert A. Caro
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History of New York, City of New York, History |
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Theodore H. White, USA
<2008-03-07 00:00>
A masterpiece of American reporting. It's more than the story of a tragic figure or the exploration of the unknown politics of our time. It's an elegantly written and enthralling work of art. |
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Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York, USA
<2008-03-07 00:00>
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. A monumental work, a political biography and political history of the first magnitude. |
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Daniel Berger, Baltimore Evening Sun, USA
<2008-03-07 00:00>
One of the most exciting, un-put-downable books I have ever read. This is definitive biography, urban history, and investigative journalism. 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. |
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Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek, USA
<2008-03-07 00:00>
Fascinating, every oversize page of it. |
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Justin Kaplan, USA
<2008-03-07 00:00>
A triumph, brilliant and totally fascinating. A majestic, even Shakespearean, drama about the interplay of power and personality. |
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William Greider, The Washington Post Book World, USA
<2008-03-07 00:00>
The feverish hype that dominates the merchandising of arts and letters in America has so debased the language that, when a truly exceptional achievement comes along, there are no words left to praise it. Important, awesome, compelling--these no longer summon the full flourish of trumpets this book deserves. It is extraordinary on many levels and certain to endure. |
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Jane Jacobs, USA
<2008-03-07 00:00>
Apart from the book's being so good as biography, as city history, as sheer good reading, The Power Broker is an immense public service. |
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Richard C. Wade, The New York Times Book Review, USA
<2008-03-07 00:00>
In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort. |
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