God's greatest gift to Jane Jacobs, and, indirectly, to 20th-century Toronto, was a man named Robert Moses. The public-works czar of New York City from 1934 until his fall from grace in 1968, Mr ...

A quick – okay, a long – read through The Power Broker might give him second thoughts. Like Mr. Ford, Robert Moses was hell-bent on building more, better, wider roads.

Robert Moses speaks at an event in Jackson, Miss., in February 2014. Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the U.S. South ...

Dunkelman puts the book back into context: “When, during the Watergate summer of 1974, Robert Caro published his voluminous takedown of Robert Moses, the spellbinding narrative mirrored what was ...

But it is impossible to argue with the choice made by the New York Historical museum to host a show commemorating the 50th anniversary of “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York ...