Wrestling with Moses
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City
by Anthony Flint
-Reviewed by Adam Fleisher
Robert Caro’s masterpiece The Power Broker, first published in 1974, is the definitive account of how Robert Moses, “America’s greatest builder,” ruined New York City. From the 1920s into the 1960s, Moses amassed the power to ram through development projects on an incredible scale. But, wrote Caro, the housing Moses built for the poor was “bleak, sterile, [and] cheap.” The bridges and …
