出版社: Vintage
副标题: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
出版年: 1975-7-12
页数: 1344
定价: USD 25.00
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780394720241
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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 shape...
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.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
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, a...
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.”
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At first, I hesitated by the length of this book, when I started reading this book, I almost gave up due to its complexities, all the unfamiliar places, names, institutions and procedures. But more and more, I was attracted. From 1924 Moses was in power unt... (展开)> 更多书评 8篇
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0 有用 红木青衣 2014-06-13 19:57:03
哎,砖头书你好
4 有用 水草狗 2016-09-09 23:59:33
书很厚,读了其中一百页。关于Robert Moses的报告文学,讲地产巨头如何通过城市规划获取了支配城市的权力。学术性很弱,但不失为很有洞见的著作。
0 有用 文和乱武 2024-03-20 23:24:36 上海
罗伯特·摩西生前爱说一句话:“有能力的人负责建造,没有能力的人只会批评。”自负之情溢于言表。站在世俗角度,他当然是个“建造者”,也是成功者。他的规划理念和执行力,不仅改变了纽约,还影响了美国甚至整个世界。 但这并不是故事的全貌。在摩西的黄金时代,纽约的堵车现象一天比一天严重,原因是他修筑的公路和桥梁,只图更大、更宽,却缺少真正的科学规划。他的确抹去了哈德孙河两岸的贫民窟,但只是把那里的居民,赶去更... 罗伯特·摩西生前爱说一句话:“有能力的人负责建造,没有能力的人只会批评。”自负之情溢于言表。站在世俗角度,他当然是个“建造者”,也是成功者。他的规划理念和执行力,不仅改变了纽约,还影响了美国甚至整个世界。 但这并不是故事的全貌。在摩西的黄金时代,纽约的堵车现象一天比一天严重,原因是他修筑的公路和桥梁,只图更大、更宽,却缺少真正的科学规划。他的确抹去了哈德孙河两岸的贫民窟,但只是把那里的居民,赶去更拥挤、更混乱的角落,让他们的处境更加艰难。他曾经单枪匹马挑战整个纽约官场,晚年却成为腐败活动的组织者,与自己的初心渐行渐远。作者卡罗用一句结语,概括了他对摩西的复杂感受:“没有罗伯特·摩西,纽约或许并不会成为一座更好的城市。但它一定会是一座截然不同的城市。” (展开)
0 有用 心若无涯 2024-03-18 17:06:30 浙江
没有罗伯特·摩西,纽约或许并不会成为一座更好的城市。但它一定会是一座截然不同的城市。
0 有用 Jacqueline_琳 2022-09-19 02:57:54 美国
Audible // The staggering amount of research in this book would’ve been put to better use if the author didn’t try to fit it into his narrative and pre-conceived notions at every turn.
0 有用 哆啦大胖 2024-03-28 22:39:28 辽宁
得到APP每天听本书分享:摩西把纽约的腐败现象,从少数人的私欲变成了一整套系统。他为美国政治和财富的阴暗面,充当了40多年的“经纪人”。摩西心目中的“美国人民”,和“理想城市”一样,只是抽象概念。他可以为了抽象的个人理想,牺牲具体的人的利益。作者卡罗用一句结语,概括了他对摩西的复杂感受:“没有罗伯特·摩西,纽约或许并不会成为一座更好的城市。但它一定会是一座截然不同的城市。”
0 有用 文和乱武 2024-03-20 23:24:36 上海
罗伯特·摩西生前爱说一句话:“有能力的人负责建造,没有能力的人只会批评。”自负之情溢于言表。站在世俗角度,他当然是个“建造者”,也是成功者。他的规划理念和执行力,不仅改变了纽约,还影响了美国甚至整个世界。 但这并不是故事的全貌。在摩西的黄金时代,纽约的堵车现象一天比一天严重,原因是他修筑的公路和桥梁,只图更大、更宽,却缺少真正的科学规划。他的确抹去了哈德孙河两岸的贫民窟,但只是把那里的居民,赶去更... 罗伯特·摩西生前爱说一句话:“有能力的人负责建造,没有能力的人只会批评。”自负之情溢于言表。站在世俗角度,他当然是个“建造者”,也是成功者。他的规划理念和执行力,不仅改变了纽约,还影响了美国甚至整个世界。 但这并不是故事的全貌。在摩西的黄金时代,纽约的堵车现象一天比一天严重,原因是他修筑的公路和桥梁,只图更大、更宽,却缺少真正的科学规划。他的确抹去了哈德孙河两岸的贫民窟,但只是把那里的居民,赶去更拥挤、更混乱的角落,让他们的处境更加艰难。他曾经单枪匹马挑战整个纽约官场,晚年却成为腐败活动的组织者,与自己的初心渐行渐远。作者卡罗用一句结语,概括了他对摩西的复杂感受:“没有罗伯特·摩西,纽约或许并不会成为一座更好的城市。但它一定会是一座截然不同的城市。” (展开)
0 有用 深情的艾老师 2024-03-19 01:20:34 挪威
1. 摩西把纽约的腐败现象,从少数人的私欲变成了一整套系统。他为美国政治和财富的阴暗面,充当了40多年的“经纪人”。2. 摩西心目中的“美国人民”,和“理想城市”一样,只是抽象概念。他可以为了抽象的个人理想,牺牲具体的人的利益。3. 没有罗伯特·摩西,纽约或许并不会成为一座更好的城市。但它一定会是一座截然不同的城市。
0 有用 心若无涯 2024-03-18 17:06:30 浙江
没有罗伯特·摩西,纽约或许并不会成为一座更好的城市。但它一定会是一座截然不同的城市。
0 有用 六月雪 2024-03-18 16:03:28 上海
1.摩西把纽约的腐败现象,从少数人的私欲变成了一整套系统。他为美国政治和财富的阴暗面,充当了40多年的“经纪人”。 2.摩西心目中的“美国人民”,和“理想城市”一样,只是抽象概念。他可以为了抽象的个人理想,牺牲具体的人的利益。 3.作者卡罗用一句结语,概括了他对摩西的复杂感受:“没有罗伯特·摩西,纽约或许并不会成为一座更好的城市。但它一定会是一座截然不同的城市。”