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Council Makes Mountains Out of Monuments

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 10/20/21

When Robert Moses died in 1981, I was stunned reading the New York Times obituary that detailed the parks, highways, bridges and tunnels and other structures for which the man long known as The Master Builder was responsible.

I was aware of Mr. Moses's career bestriding both city and state governments without ever being elected to public office primarily from what I knew of Robert Caro's 1974 biography, "The Power Broker," which detailed all the terrible consequences of some of his major projects, his disregard for the residents who lived in the path of some of them, and his racism toward black people and contempt for those from other groups that stood in his way.

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