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

5% in a book of such heft is milestone, and I'll report my progress in such increments to keep myself motivated to finish. So far, I've learned that New York's govt at the beginning of the 20th century operated without any budget; and that a group of gentlemen uncovered fraud cases by walking around the city, counting bags of cement at construction sites, and running them against official records from the press.