Robert Caro won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Power Broker", about this administrator who shaped New York City
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Podcast #107: Robert A. Caro and Frank Rich on Power and ...  Apr 12, 2016 ... Robert A. Caro is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his books The ... The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, the latter ... a longtime contributor to the New York Times who won an Emmy for his work on the HBO series Veep. ... years, almost half a century, and with it, he shaped our city.
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York: Robert A ...  The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York [Robert A. Caro] on ... books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes. ... The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Paperback $12.69.
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The Power Broker - Wikipedia  The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro. ... Because Caro's narrative includes a great deal of history about New York City itself, the book ... The book won the Pulitzer in biography in 1974, as well as the Francis Parkman Prize awarded...
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by ...  Jul 28, 1975 ... The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York ..... Brought into the administration of reforming Mayor John Purroy Mitchel in 1914, ... Robert Moses shaped a city and its sprawling suburbsand, to an extent that .... Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times...
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Robert A. Caro: The Power Broker 40 Years ... - The New York Times  Dec 10, 2014 ... Just in front of me was a group of Moses' top administrators and engineers, the satraps of the Moses ... last line, I suddenly saw the book whole, saw the shape of everything that would lead up to that line. ... Robert A. Caro's The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York won the Pulitzer Prize.
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novel 'ironweed' and mamet play are awarded 1984 pulitzer prizes  Apr 17, 1984 ... In journalism, four newspapers each took two prizes - The New York ... to the education and enjoyment of America's children and their parents. ... cutthroat real estate salesmen, won the Pulitzer Prizes for fiction and drama yesterday. ... In letters, prizes were awarded to Dr. Louis R. Harlan for his biography,...
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Podcast: Remembering Mailer for Mayor - The New York Times  Nov 14, 2007 ... Norman Mailer, at the microphone, campaigning for mayor in the garment ... His running mate for City Council president was the columnist ... Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight  a prequel of sorts to his latest likely best-seller, The Good Rat. It's also about organized crime, not about the '69 campaign.
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New York World - Wikipedia  The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 until 1931. The paper played a major role in the history of American newspapers. It was a leading national voice of the Democratic Party. From 1883 to 1911 under publisher Joseph Pulitzer, it became a pioneer in ... As a publicity stunt for the paper, inspired by the Jules Verne novel Around...
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The Astor Bloodline  Prior to 1817, John Jacob Astor entered into the fur trade and remained the ... John Coleman in his good book The Conspirator's Hierarchy: The Story of the ... of the Empire State Building) the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was built by William .... It is no coincidence that nine of the Top 13 families would get there names in a...
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The Baseball Magnates and Urban Politics In ... - Homework Market  the city's Republican boss, George B. Cox, his lieutenant, Water. Works Commissioner ... while in Chicago, political machines were very active on the ward level.
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As a Crime Buster, Giuliani Kept an Eye on the Future, and His Image  Dec 10, 2007 ... And when the United States attorney in Manhattan resigned in January 1989, he earned a tabloid salute: Good News for Bad Guys, The Daily...
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The House of Mirth  1908 Jan 21, New York City's Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance that ... 1900 Mar 24, Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke ground for the New York subway tunnel that would ... 1902 William Randolph Hearst served 2 terms as Congressman for the 11th ... 1904 Aug 16, NYC began building the Grand Central Station.
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Geraldine Ferraro Remembered For Unique Style, Groundbreaking ...  Mar 27, 2011 ... New City, NY - First woman to be nominated for vice president by a major U.S. ... She became an iconic person who inspired women to take on challenges. ... It is sad to lose this woman who was so completely a New Yorker. ... the election of 1984, Geraldine Ferraro emerged as a role model by becoming...
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Inside the Power Elite - LewRockwell  was one of the few officials in the Roosevelt administration genuinely interested in peace ... Relations (CFR) and to the Rockefeller-created Trilateral Commission has fizzled, and ... chairman of the board of his family's Chase Manhattan Bank from 1970 until ... a board member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Following
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The Mayor vs. the Mogul - POLITICO Magazine  It was simpler when the boss had decamped for City Hall, weeks after the ... Introduced in 1983, the terminals helped transform Wall Street and created a ... Today, the faithful call the terminal The Bloomberg, as if man and machine ... In 1966, he earns his MBA at Harvard and moves to New York to work at Salomon Brothers.
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The DAs Of New York - Gotham Gazette  March 07, 2005 | by Gail Robinson ... Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau must hope that life does not imitate art. When the television series Law ... Morgenthau, at the age of 85, is seeking his ninth term as Manhattan DA. But former State ... He still won the general election in November -- but died soon after.
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Famous alumni ? | Bicycling Magazine Forums  May 31, 2011 ... Got any famous peeps from your school? .... Michael Bloomberg - founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City ... Sheila Dixon- former president of Baltimore City council, Mayor of .... Rachel Carson  environmentalist, author of Silent Spring Angelin .... I can include hacker and RaceBannon Big Grin
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Boss Tweed: New York's Corruption King | Keith York City  Sep 29, 2012 ... Nineteenth-century New York City was ruled by a turbulent combination of money and politics. ... But no individual from the powerful Tammany machine lives on in such ... The party put helped get him elected as a city Alderman in 1851, .... Recognized in Spain from Thomas Nast's Harper's Weekly cartoons,...
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Construction of the World Trade Center - Wikipedia  The construction of the first World Trade Center was conceived as an urban renewal project, spearheaded by David Rockefeller, to help revitalize Lower Manhattan. The project was developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which hired architect Minoru Yamasaki who ... Given the importance of New York City in global commerce, Port Authority...
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USATODAY.com - Innovators helped shape America  Nov 3, 2004 ... That is one of the big-picture points of the book: The nation has seen ... In 1841, at age 53, Tappan founded the Mercantile Agency  the first credit bureau. ... In 1933, R.G. Dun & Co. merged with a rival run by John Bradstreet, forming Dun ... "The whole of Vegas owes its inspiration to this man who had the...
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Bob Woodward: 2007 Devroy Forum Presenter | University of ...  Apr 21, 2008 ... Bob Woodward, Washington Post assistant managing editor. ... Post won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for his work with Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal. ... All the President's Men (1974) and The Final Days (1976), both Watergate books, ..... Bob Woodward: I'm not sure exactly who published this story.