The Power Broker: Volume 1 of 3: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York: Volume 1 Free Audiobook Download by Robert A. Caro

Robert Moses was the hands-down leader of a generation of city planners and builders, but more than that he was "the Power Broker," a master builder who made his own way. In 1936, when New York City came to grips with the realities of its fiscal crisis, Moses was called upon to design a way to make control over the city's destiny. That's when he began his remarkable career as "the most powerful man in the world." His goals were ambition and power and they made him very rich while he was alive.

This is a book about Robert Moses, the man who changed the city of New York and its landscape. This volume tells how the forces of power that had been gathering for decades came together to engineer the urban renewal of New York. The book is narrated by Robertson Dean, giving his own personal perspective on the events described in this volume of Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography.

"The Power Broker: Volume 1 of 3: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" is a biography written by Robert A. Caro, which covers the political career of Robert Moses and how his vision led to the development of public housing, highways and the construction of bridges over New York City's East River.

The Power Broker: Volume 1 of 3: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York: Volume 1 tells the story of how Robert Moses built NYC into the "City That Never Sleeps". He was a visionary who had an almost limitless ambition. But his vision led to corruption, schemes, and chaos.

The Power Broker is a seminal and insightful work by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro. Taking place in the 20th century, The Power Broker is about how Robert Moses was able to exert his power and influence over New York City with unprecedented control of water, land, transportation, public facilities, parks, etc.

"The Power Broker" was written by Robert A. Caro and is the first volume in his three-volume biography of the infamous power broker Robert Moses, an unsung champion of public works and a man who shaped New York City through his determination to build highways, bridges, parks, schools and other public facilities.