Public Works: A Dangerous Trade (First Edition)

$350.00

First edition of Robert Moses's sprawling and controversial memoir, published four years before Robert Caro's The Power Broker transformed public understanding of the master builder who reshaped twentieth-century New York. Part autobiography, part institutional history, and part documentary record, the volume contains extensive correspondence and firsthand accounts relating to the highways, bridges, parks, housing projects, and public authorities that defined Moses's career and permanently altered the physical landscape of New York City and its suburbs. Published in 1970 by McGraw-Hill Book Company. Thick 8vo (6.25” x 9.25”), 952 pages, b/w illustrations. Minor bumping to extremities. Light bumping and rubbing to dj.

First edition of Robert Moses's sprawling and controversial memoir, published four years before Robert Caro's The Power Broker transformed public understanding of the master builder who reshaped twentieth-century New York. Part autobiography, part institutional history, and part documentary record, the volume contains extensive correspondence and firsthand accounts relating to the highways, bridges, parks, housing projects, and public authorities that defined Moses's career and permanently altered the physical landscape of New York City and its suburbs. Published in 1970 by McGraw-Hill Book Company. Thick 8vo (6.25” x 9.25”), 952 pages, b/w illustrations. Minor bumping to extremities. Light bumping and rubbing to dj.