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

Elliot Kalin. So today we're still in part six, the lust for power. We're covering

four chapters 35 through 38. that's pages 807 through 894.

And later in this episode, our special guest is Majora Carter.

Majora is a neighborhood developer from the South Bronx. Growing up she always viewed her

neighborhood as a place where she had to leave to find success, but as she got older she

became more involved, she began undoing some of Moses's legacy and she became a champion for bettering neighborhoods like the South Bronx

so that they are places where people want to remain, even when they have been ruined by a tyrant.

Before we get started with one of my favorite chapters in one of my favorite books, so it's going to be great,

we did want to talk about something that we teased last month, our very special live event with Robert Caro, Roman, me, Robert Caro, on stage,

reunited for the first time at the Newark Historical Society.

I'm so excited about it. It's going to be great. But when the tickets

went on sale they sold out almost immediately, which made us very proud, but we know

was disappointing for a lot of you who did not get a chance to buy tickets. We're really sorry about that if we could have held the event at a stadium large enough to hold you all

We would have done it, but you are not totally out of luck. You can still watch the event

on your computer. Live stream tickets are still available. You can go to nyhistory.org

slash programs to learn more.

So on the last episode of the 99% invisible breakdown of the Power Broger,

we covered chapters 33 and 34, which detailed the ways in which Robert Moses spent the 1940s and

50s becoming the center of political corruption and honest graft in New York

City Construction World and his loss for power that has transformed them into this kind of political machine boss that he

used to despise when he was a young reformer.

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