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For decades Robert Moses may have been the most powerful American alive. From the 1930s into the 1960s he was responsible for all of the major, and many of the minor, public building projects in New York city and beyond: bridges, tunnels, expressways, harbors, parks, housing and much, much more.
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New York's modern cityscape is, to a significant degree, the creation of Robert Moses. He was also a significant rival of President Roosevelt despite the fact that Moses’s public works and FDR’s New Deal often relied on each other for political and financial support.
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Beginning June 2 FractalPast will offer a course on the New Deal, examining its most controversial premises, and placing Roosevelt’s – and Moses’s – public building in context.

See www.fractalpast.com for details. Seats are limited.

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12:55 PM - May 28, 2023
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In response to Kari Wenger.
My spout did not take a position on Moses's ethics. He was undoubtedly as nefarious, authoritarian, dishonest, and prejudiced a public figure as the US has ever produced. My spout only meant to evoke the significance of his work and to place in some uneasy context to the much-better-known New Deal.
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