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

“Power is being able to laugh at people who oppose you and to laugh at them with impunity, to antagonize without fear of reprisal. Now Robert Moses seemed to be going out of his way to laugh at people.”

“For once Bob Moses came into possession of power, it began to perform its harsh alchemy on his character, altering its contours, eating away at some traits, allowing others to enlarge.”