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For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, ROBERT A. CARO has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the ...
Jul 25, 2021 · Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority ...
Robert Moses gives a salute after the ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge on November 21, 1964 – Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge- The Beginning (15097870444), CC BY 2.0. Robert Moses’s tenure as New York’s master builder had a profound effect on the city ...
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Apr 22, 2020 · Somewhere, in their heart of hearts, all urban planners want to be Robert Moses, the master-builder of New York City. A state and municipal official for almost half a century, Moses built several bridges, an underwater tunnel, 416 miles of parkway, 2,567,256 acres of parkland, numerous public housing projects, 17 public swimming pools and 658 playgrounds.
Robert Moses is the subject of an upcoming exhibit curated by Columbia professors Kenneth T. Jackson and Hilary Ballon; the three-part Robert Moses and the Modern City is slated to open at Columbia's Wallach Art Gallery, The Museum of the City of New York, and the Queens Museum in early 2006. Read more about Moses in the Columbia Encyclopedia.
