Ben Weinstein’s Reviews > The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York > Status Update
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done with Part III. Moses turns toward parks and away from reform; historo-politico-geographic survey of Long Island; Caro's disdain for robber barons.
p 148: "Their creed was summed up in two quotes: Commodore Vanderbilt's 'Law? What do I care for law? Hain't I got the power?' and J. P. Morgan's 'I owe the public nothing.'" (from a great paragraph I wish I could quote in its entirety—400 characters is too short!)
— 17 hours, 1 min ago
p 148: "Their creed was summed up in two quotes: Commodore Vanderbilt's 'Law? What do I care for law? Hain't I got the power?' and J. P. Morgan's 'I owe the public nothing.'" (from a great paragraph I wish I could quote in its entirety—400 characters is too short!)
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117: 'Men who saw in the bond between Robert Moses and Alfred Emanuel Smith a key to the shape in which the future of New York State and New York City unfolded... would wonder what had forged between the two men of independence and pride and ambition a tie so strong that, transcending independence and pride and ambition, it would be ended only by death.'
Ch 7 is such a great bio/hagiography of Al Smith
— Dec 20, 2025 11:12AM
Ch 7 is such a great bio/hagiography of Al Smith
Ben Weinstein
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p 41: 'In literature his greatest enthusiasm was for Samuel Johnson. ... The assigned reading included excerpts from Boswell's biography of Johnson; Moses read the book complete'
A man after my own heart.
— Dec 14, 2025 07:23PM
A man after my own heart.
