This ensures that the bridge authority, Moses' source of power, stays in existence and under his control. Instead of allowing the bonds to be paid off, Moses learns how to reissue them on a continual basis so that they are never paid off. A bridge authority stays in existence until its bonds are repaid. Moses creates for himself an empire known as Triborough, of which he is the sole ruler. He learns how to get his projects approved and to acquire the necessary funding, independent of the powers that be. His idealism and ideas to reform the system and rid it of corruption lead him to learn how to play the game to make the system work for him. He lives to see most of his dreams for New York fulfilled. Moses becomes one of the most powerful men in New York, if not the most powerful.

He either needs the support of the people with power or he needs to develop his own power. He studies the situation and learns where the source of power is. Moses knows what he wants to do but he learns that he can't accomplish it without power. He wants to reform the government and he has the education and training to do so(but he doesn't have the opportunity. He is educated at Yale University and Oxford University and returns to New York filled with the idealism of youth. Robert Moses is a young man with a dream to build an infrastructure for the New York City area. Caro is the story of Robert Moses and the construction of the parks, bridges, highway system, United Nations Building, and other structures in New York. The Power Brokers Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert A.

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