Sublime

The city’s government did little to help its people. The will to help was not the force that drove that government. That force was greed. During the fifteen years in which Red Mike Hylan and then Beau James Walker had been Chief Magistrate of America’s greatest city, the Tammany leaders who served under them had seemed motivated primarily by the de

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In an arrangement at least tacitly approved by three Governors—an arrangement lasting for at least seventeen years after the war—“Moses had the say,” McMorran says, “over who got the contracts on all New York City [area] jobs.” And not just on contracts. Moses had the say—absolute authority—to decide not only who should design and build all highway

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