Robert Caro on how Robert Moses ruled New York without ever winning an election

Robert Moses ascended to unparalleled power in New York City during the 20th century, designing much of the city's infrastructure and highway system. Moses "shaped all of New York City," says Robert Caro, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Power Broker." "You think you know what political power is. You don't have the faintest idea."
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[@Jjkano]

I am here because JRE

[@MKxpl]

here because of Edward Norton

[@jordantyson8772]

@@MKxpl definitely read the book

[@Alpha1200]

Caro is a brilliant man and The Power Broker was a very enlightening book.

[@jiosnuis4031]

Cheers for having this gentleman interviewed . The power broker is the most fascinating book I own. And Robert caro is simply masterful

[@robertfishman3742]

jios nuis Yes, - if you liked The Power Broker, then you will really enjoy Robert Caro’s 4-volume (hopefully soon to be 5-volume) biography of Lyndon Johnson

[@mariusfacktor3597]

That's so screwed up. There should have been oversight. One man wrote laws to put himself in charge of a city. And his legacy is the ugliest parts of NYC-- the freeways. Without them NYC would have many recreational waterfronts, and it would be less car dependent. There would be less cars, and less exhaust, and less noise. There would be more people biking and better mass transit. The freeways were the imagination of one man and not the will of the city. We can undo that damage. Remove the NYC freeways.

[@elhadjiamadoujohnson4166]

Fascinating book about a complicated man with powerful brain 🧠.

[@pagamenews]

Interesting statement here makes at 1:22 . Of course, if the average citizen says something like this they are labeled as being a conspiracy theorist.

[@shkrsimpson44]

Isn't that funny?

[@Soapboxview]

Around 1964 my father had my mother tell me, "your father doesn't like toll collections when they are already paid for." 1:07

[@Fabo100]

We all know why and how we got here, no need to point it out...

[@jaketapper45]

The power brocker, besides the life of Che Guevara. Was one of the longest books I listen to on Audible. Beto Moses built New York City.

[@andreware6492]

I read the book! Great book

[@packr72]

No he didn’t. New York was better before he started tearing it up to build highways and housing developments. The NYC Subway suffered massively because of him.

[@suckmygooglies99]

packr72 nope

[@Dog.soldier1950]

Now public works take 10x as long for 10x the cost if at all if built at all

[@ansar714]

All that jibberish never outlines nothing. Why didn't the people of NY restrain his power by mandating that his position must have term limits and that he can be subject to removal if abridge certain rights.

[@user-jt7bx3ek8w]

simple answer most people didn´t know

[@muhammadputera6593]

his position did have term limits. He just held many positions simultaneously, 12 at one point.

[@Southpaw128]

Read the book. The laws he passed contained minute bylaws that legislators missed when passing them. Basically as long as he can continue getting new bonds on his authorities they would never go out of existence and since they were quasi private institutions only the banking institutions that financed the bonds, and Robert Moses himself, had any say in its fate. This way, he had his own financial stream, his own independent set of rules and enforcers, ajd his own centralized power completely independent from elected government officials. Like Robert Caro said, he was a genius. Albeit a selfish and power hungry one.

[@davonmills4982]

Take Because We Live In A Oilgarily

[@markalanrudings3657]

You mean oligarch?

[@timothylines631]

his name is a clew , jim crow 2 point 0.