Robert Caro's The Power Broker about Robert Moses, the most powerful unelected government official in U.S. history. Caro, a Pulitzer winning journalist, is a w

Robert Caro's The Power Broker about Robert Moses, the most powerful unelected government official in U.S. history. Caro, a Pulitzer winning journalist, is a wiz at writing, so you'll enjoy each page. But more importantly, even though Robert Moses was a bad buy, you don't have to be bad to learn to get what you want, in an organization, by ignoring superficial power structures, and focusing on the real ones. Plus you'll learn a ton about how NYC was built out in the depression.