[miss marmelstein]

Did some good things; did some bad things. A lot of people lost their homes due to his various endeavors.

[NYAmerican]

I’ve always been fascinated by Robert Moses. A couple of years ago I ATTEMPTED to read Caro’s book.....I say “attempted”, because, less than 50 pages in, Caro’s leftist indoctrinated claptrap nearly made me throw the book across the room. I believe the part that set me off was Caro’s accusations regarding the HORRORS of the architecturally sterile, cold designs of the new NYC Housing Projects. Exactly as brainwashed to do, he designated the first tenants of these developments as “victims”......I have some PERSONAL knowledge of the original inhabitants of these facilities. They were Honest, Hard Working, Clean Living people raising families and glad for the opportunity to live in clean, safe, fireproof buildings which were completely surrounded by manicured lawns, shrubs, paths, benches, playgrounds, etc. All that was UNTIL liberal scum like Caro designated everyone a “victim” and turned the places into the hellholes they are today. Again, I’d love to find a quality biography of Moses, but Caro’s verbal diarrhea isn’t what I’m looking for.

[muir_redwoods]

If Kelo had been decided 100 years earlier, Moses would have had NYC named after himself.

[Arthur McGowan]

Robert Caro is a participant in the cover-up of LBJ’s murder of JFK.

The fact that, fifty years later, it is possible for historians and journalists to be intimidated into concealing crimes of such magnitude explains how all “respectable” people—even those we are inclined to think of as having “integrity”—have been intimidated into ignoring the fact that we have a “President” who is a Muslim terrorist and almost certainly an illegal alien.

[Gay State Conservative]

I saw a documentary on him once.Largely responsible for the highway system in the Greater New York area.I,for one,*still* can't figure out the Triborough Bridge.

I absolutely refuse to call it the "RFK Bridge".

[Rockingham]

That I had read Caro's biography of Moses helped me, my brother, and a handful of activists defeat a bad local toll road project in the Orlando area. The sponsor of the road was an arrogant and corrupt independent road agency that was modeled on what Robert Moses created.

In part due to Caro's biography, we had no illusions that we were in for a long, hard fight that required us to not only make the case against the project, but to also expose wrong doing, file law suits, win the public over, and to wreck enough political careers to make the project toxic to local and state power brokers. The fight lasted years but we won, based on the strategy that we developed in the first few weeks -- with Robert Caro's help, so to speak.

[headstamp 2]

“Prior to her election to the U.S. Senate, Elizabeth Warren, in her unofficial capacity as advisor to President Obama, conceived the agency which is not responsible to Congress as it is funded through fees collected by the Federal Reserve. “

Thank you Congress.

[what's up]

Bump

[Slyfox]

The most important person in America the media did not want us to know:

[Verginius Rufus]

I haven't read the book but I read segments of it serialized in The New Yorker (before the book came out, I think).

That was a long time ago so I don't recall all the details. Caro made Moses out to be a hero in some ways, as I recall, but slammed him for his refusal to extend the subway system out into Long Island as it was starting to fill up with suburbs, in the expectation that everyone would want to drive their cars on the freeways coming into town.

[ifinnegan]

Dodgers moved to LA because of Moses.