Books of The Times - In ‘Wrestling With Moses,’ Anthony Flint Portrays the Battles Between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses - Review - NYTimes.com
Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs are the subject and the author of two of the most indelible nonfiction books of the 20th century: Robert Caro’s biography of Moses, “The Power Broker” (1974) and Jacobs’s own “Death and Life of Great American Cities” (1961). If you want to know about these towering oppositional figures, those are the bedrock texts, and neither feels remotely like homework: they’re as alive today as when they were written.
The two bedrock texts are ones I want to read after my recent visit to NYC.
Image via Wikipedia entry on Robert Moses
