The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

“The Power Broker” recommends itself, but the sheer granularity of its institutional & geographical detail is actually brilliant. If you enjoy spending your bedtime reading allotment learning about the governance of bay bottom rights on the South Shore of Long Island or revel in details like the herd of inbred sheep that grazed on the west side of Central Park during the 1920s, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU.