2022-11-08
1 小时 33 分钟Robert Moses represented a past that's, you know,
a time when we wanted to build bridges and super highways and things that pretty much is going on.
We're not building super highways now.
We're not building vast bridges like Moses built all the time.
Had Robert Moses not lived, not done what he did,
New York would have followed the trail of maybe Detroit,
essentially all the big roads, all the bridges, all the parks, the United Nations.
Lincoln Center, the World's Fair of 1939 and 1964, and hundreds of other things he built.
And I think it was the best book I ever read.
In broad strokes, it's correct.
Robert Moses had more power than any urban figure in American history.
He built incredible monuments.
He was ruthless and arrogant and honest.
Okay, I am really, really excited about this one.
Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Professor Kenneth T.
Jackson about the life and legacy of Robert Moses.
Professor Jackson is the preeminent historian on New York City.
He was the director of the Herbert H.
Lehman Center for American History and the Jacques Barzoon Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.
where he has also chaired the Department of History.