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

The NY equivalents of Woodward and Bernstein are on the case! GET IM BOYS.

I have been waiting 958 pages to get to "The Loss of Power" section of this book. Please, karmic justice, beat this man into the dirt. I need some schadenfreude to get through this home stretch!

I am going to burn this man to the ground in my review. Please look forward to it.

I feel like the entirety of this book can be summed up by :
Moses : Here sign this piece of paper that says I can do anything I want as long as I'm not a dick.
Politicians : ok
Moses : *acts like a dick*
P : Wait but you said you wouldn't be a dick?
Moses : Check again -- it says I can't BE a dick. it says nothing about me ACTING like a dick even though I'm a great person. Checkmate!

Me : *rejoicing when someone finally sticks a finger in Moses' eye.
Robert Caro : but here's why that actually wasn't a win, because nobody except the friggin President had the power to stick that finger.

Way to be a buzzkill, Robert (Caro, not Moses, who is a buzzkill all the time and therefore doesn't need a special callout).

25 pages a day will get this done in time to go back to the library. Marathon, not a sprint! Breathe! Breathe!

You know how you can spot a red flag by watching how your date treats the waiter? It's like Moses stitched himself a whole suit made out of red flags.

Alas, Robert (both of you), here at the end of part IV we must part ways, for you are due at the library and I cannot finish 700 pages before I get billed for you. We shall meet anon, when I'm not moving!