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...public works and building projects. He pushed great roads in all directions from the hub of New York City. He created green and public parks in every corner of New York State. He spanned rivers with long, graceful suspension bridges, erected massive dams, carved playgrounds out of brick and granite so that city children would have a place...
Across the land, many of the old, abandoned monuments to America's past are welcoming visitors as they never did before. There are the august red brick firehouses, the rococo waterworks, the splendiferous banks with marble floors and tellers' grilles that could have come from a Jimmy Cagney heist flick, abandoned churches raised with prayer and artistry, majestic railroad stations, many designed by the finest architects in the U.S. They have been re-antiquated and reinserted into American life with love and ambience-and with food and wine. The fact is that hundreds of classic buildings throughout...
...brochure went on to list and advertise a number of the "unique and intimate" specialty shops and boutiques in the Square area and to hint at a community ambience of benign craziness. It sounded like the summer of '69 had gotten a little Establishment backing and been preserved in brick and wood--all for you, the student...
...concise, peremptory title--Socialism. As Marx and Lenin stare out at you from behind hortatory covers, you shudder at the sudden bite of the thick moist air settling in the wintry streets of a European capital. The three-story facades of workers' houses are depressing in their black-sooted brick, and the smoke emanating from the stack of a nearby factory leaves an acrid smell in the air. Leaflets are being passed out on the street, and, as you lean over to grab one...someone knocks a copy of "Beyond the Melting Pot" off a shelf above you, it catches...
Caro's book comes close to being a history of New York from the first decades of the century to the present. If Caro tends to see Robert Moses behind every brick, well, he was there almost always. But Caro's attack on the Moses myths is nearly as overblown, at least in style, as the myths themselves. He writes breathlessly, and sometimes The Power Broker sounds more like a harangue against a political opponent than a well-researched biography...