Leo Walker’s Reviews > The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York > Status Update

Robert Caro loves describing quaint New York neighbourhoods in such depth that I've lost sense of the story's grand thrust to stay with the residents of East Tremont or Sunset Park and sympathise about the cost of their groceries, and then saying "Robert Moses so hated these poors, he evicted thousands of them to build the $90,000,000 Bridge Which Solves The Traffic Problem, which made the traffic problem worse"