The Power Broker, by Robert Carow

The power broker, by robert carow, the book you see on a bookshelf behind every single cable news zoom interviewe. That is the story of robert moses. For decades, if he wanted something built, it got built. But in the nineteen sixties, for the first time, there was serious pushback to his project,. The har brained lower manhattan expressway, nicknamed lo max would have required demolishing almost half of Soho. Soho suddenly had an identity, and there was a permanence now to the place. It became the art district of new york in a way that none had been before....