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This is as good a thread as any to mention that if the automotive infrastructure of NYC gets you excited, it's but one of many good reasons to pick up Robert Ca
by twoodfin 10y ago
This is as good a thread as any to mention that if the automotive infrastructure of NYC gets you excited, it's but one of many good reasons to pick up Robert Caro's epic The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York.
I finished the Audible recording a few months ago, and it lived up to its reputation as perhaps the great modern biography.
- mmmpop 10y agoHey thanks, just looked this up and it seems like a very highly regarded book. Ordered and on the way!
- AndyMcConachie 10y agoI got about half-way through the paper version before I gave up. It's very detailed, and while I liked it, it was just too slow with too much detail. Perhaps the audio version on a long trip would be better :)
- Nav_Panel 10y agoYeah, I stalled out a bit around there too, but I felt like things picked back up with the chapter "One Mile" which is a very extensive neighborhood study of the effect of a single mile of the Cross-Bronx Expressway that cut through the (working class Jewish) East Tremont neighborhood. Also, don't you want to know how his reign eventually met its end?
- surement 10y agoI've owned the book and it's just been sitting there for years. Recently I just gave in and got it on audible and I find it much more palatable.