http://darrencohen.me/tags/books/ Recent content in Books on Darren Cohen Hugo en Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://darrencohen.me/posts/the-power-broker/ Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://darrencohen.me/posts/the-power-broker/ <p>Robert Caro&rsquo;s biography of Robert Moses is less a book about one man than it is about how power actually works — how it&rsquo;s accumulated, how it&rsquo;s wielded, and how it outlasts the people who are supposed to check it.</p> <p>Moses never held elected office. He ran parks, bridges, highways, housing authorities. And for four decades he shaped New York more decisively than any mayor or governor. Caro&rsquo;s central insight is that control over physical infrastructure is control over everything: where people live, how they move, what neighborhoods thrive or decay.</p>