圖書標籤: 政治 美國 傳記 NYC 權力 普利策奬 history 城市設計
发表于2024-05-17
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One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in New York, the shaper not only of the city's politics but of its physical structure and the problems of urban decline that plague us today. In revealing how Moses did it--how he developed his public authorities into a political machine that was virtually a fourth branch of government, one that could bring to their knees Governors and Mayors (from La Guardia to Lindsay) by mobilizing banks, contractors, labor unions, insurance firms, even the press and the Church, into an irresistible economic force--Robert Caro reveals how power works in all the cities of the United States. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He personally conceived and completed public works costing 27 billion dollars--the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever having been elected to office, he dominated the men who were--even his most bitter enemy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, could not control him--until he finally encountered, in Nelson Rockefeller, the only man whose power (and ruthlessness in wielding it) equalled his own.
For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biogra- phy from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best “exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.” In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama.
Caro’s first book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, every- where acclaimed as a modern classic, was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to David Halberstam, “Surely the greatest book ever written about a city.” And The New York Times Book Review said: “In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort.”
理想主義者是一個可敬又可怕的存在,可怕在於他們為瞭理想可以犧牲掉一切,而可敬在於這一切也包括他們自己;簡雅各布斯易得,而摩西難求,雖然我最喜歡的是芒福德先生。
評分1975年的普利策奬傳記作品,看過中文版 翻譯作《成為官僚》,關於 羅伯特.摩西的令人唏噓不已的一生,權力,媒體,城市規劃,社區與真實。1975年的美國政壇,公共建設領域 與今天的中國 也許仍然有些驚人的相似之處。很可惜另一本相關著作《美國大城市的死與生》一直沒讀
評分書很厚,讀瞭其中一百頁。關於Robert Moses的報告文學,講地産巨頭如何通過城市規劃獲取瞭支配城市的權力。學術性很弱,但不失為很有洞見的著作。
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評分作为美国非虚构的巨人之一,Robert Caro的作品一直享有盛誉。如评论家所说,这部Caro的成名之作长达千余页,但文笔非常流畅,并且把如此复杂的事情写得条理清晰、细节丰富。最重要的是,这部书籍的确揭露了美国的权力之道。主人公Robert Moses能够从一介书生到掌权数十年之久,...
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