This is the 99% of visible breakdown of the power broker. I'm Roman Mars.

And I'm Elliot Kalin.

So today we're covering the final section of Part 5, The Love of Power, and the Beginning of Part 6, The Lust for Power.

That's Chapter 27 through 32, pages 607 through 702. And later in this episode,

our special guest is the Secretary of Transportation,

Pete Budichichich.

In addition to overseeing the federal dollars

for infrastructure in this country,

Secretary Budichichichich was also

responsible for several major infrastructure projects when he was mayor of

South Bend, Indiana. He's also talked about acknowledging the racism built into transportation systems around the country,

something he has mentioned publicly, kind of paraphrasing the power broker, and gotten a lot of pushback

for.

So on the last episode, Robert Moses was showing what an amazing visionary he was,

but also what a petty tyrant he could be. On one hand he was brilliantly taking advantage of

these like tax assessments and federal programs and archival research to complete the funding of this

massive West Side Manhattan Construction Project,

which is this amazing chapter and just like

how he works down 109 million dollars

to something that the city can afford.

On the other hand, he's destroying neighborhoods,

these historic neighborhoods, he's destroying New York's

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