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The Power Broker (Robert Caro, 50th anniversary edition)
biography
Caro's 1974 Robert Moses biography hit 50 in 2024 with a major re-issue and resurgent cultural conversation around urban planning.
From Wikipedia
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a 1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro. The book focuses on the creation and use of power in New York local and state politics, as witnessed through Moses's use of unelected positions to design and implement dozens of highways and bridges, sometimes at great cost to the communities he nominally served. The book was critically acclaimed, and has been repeatedly named one of the best biographies of the 20th century, and has been highly influential on city planners and politicians throughout the United States. The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975.