The Power Broker

For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biogra- phy from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best “exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.” In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama.Caro’s first book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, every- where acclaimed as a modern classic, was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to David Halberstam, “Surely the greatest book ever written about a city.” And The New York Times Book Review said: “In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort.”

出版者:Vintage

作者:Robert A. Caro

页数:1344

出版时间:1975-7-12

价格:USD 25.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780394720241

图书标签:政治美国传记NYC权力普利策奖history城市设计

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One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in New York, the shaper not only of the city's politics but of its physical structure and the problems of urban decline that plague us today. In revealing how Moses did it--how he developed his public authorities into a political machine that was virtually a fourth branch of government, one that could bring to their knees Governors and Mayors (from La Guardia to Lindsay) by mobilizing banks, contractors, labor unions, insurance firms, even the press and the Church, into an irresistible economic force--Robert Caro reveals how power works in all the cities of the United States. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He personally conceived and completed public works costing 27 billion dollars--the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever having been elected to office, he dominated the men who were--even his most bitter enemy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, could not control him--until he finally encountered, in Nelson Rockefeller, the only man whose power (and ruthlessness in wielding it) equalled his own.

读后感

作为美国非虚构的巨人之一，Robert Caro的作品一直享有盛誉。如评论家所说，这部Caro的成名之作长达千余页，但文笔非常流畅，并且把如此复杂的事情写得条理清晰、细节丰富。最重要的是，这部书籍的确揭露了美国的权力之道。主人公Robert Moses能够从一介书生到掌权数十年之久，...  

封面上赫然写着“美国两百多所大学和研究院学生必读书”，挺笑人的。如果把“美”换成“中”，大概我是会把当年的《政治经济学》或《马克思主义哲学》与之对号入座的。敢问美利坚也有政治正确的书吗？罗伯特·摩西的故事读完了发现，却实在连是一门学问都算不上啊，所以“必读...  

东亚有着数千年的高度发达的专制集权政治的传统，在这里，官场仕途成为整个社会最热衷的竞技场并不会让人感到太多的意外。但是，在一向以商业立国的美国，那里的政坛又会是一幅怎样的浮世绘呢？ 不要以为在太平洋的彼岸官僚的权力就会减少多少逊色多少。在《The Power Broker》...

封面上赫然写着“美国两百多所大学和研究院学生必读书”，挺笑人的。如果把“美”换成“中”，大概我是会把当年的《政治经济学》或《马克思主义哲学》与之对号入座的。敢问美利坚也有政治正确的书吗？罗伯特·摩西的故事读完了发现，却实在连是一门学问都算不上啊，所以“必读...  

用户评价

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理想主义者

Robert Moses白手起家的政治和建设强人，基本上纽约市主要高速公路，收费桥梁，各大公园（中央公园除外），联合国大楼，林肯中心，共120多个公共项目，都是他在三十到六十年代组织建造，并开创了桥梁收费证券化融资建设模式。Robert Caro一辈子主要琢磨了两个人，Moses和LBJ。

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Robert Moses白手起家的政治和建设强人，基本上纽约市主要高速公路，收费桥梁，各大公园（中央公园除外），联合国大楼，林肯中心，共120多个公共项目，都是他在三十到六十年代组织建造，并开创了桥梁收费证券化融资建设模式。Robert Caro一辈子主要琢磨了两个人，Moses和LBJ。