Sublime

In a machine oiled by money, the influence of the money man was, of course, enormous. In a machine that danced to the jingle of coins, Shanahan had a large say in calling the tune. And Moses made sure that the tune was his tune.

could continue uninterrupted. None of Moses’ previous feats of urban construction—immense though they had been—compared with the roads he was planning now; as is demonstrated by the cost.

Already predisposed to be friendly toward Moses because he was creator and defender of parks, the city’s thirteen daily newspapers had that friendship cultivated with customary Moses thoroughness.

Incredibly hard-working, incredibly loyal—dedicated, faceless—they were already becoming recognized by public officials as an elite cadre within the ranks of the state’s civil servants and had already been given the name “Moses Men.”

To follow Moses’ suggestions, the United States would have had to close almost completely the higher ranks of government service not only to all men without a college degree but to all men without a degree from an Ivy League college. In fact, by logical extension of Moses’ philosophy, graduates of Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and Penn would

Moses would suggest that the commissioner designate one of his aides to do nothing but handle Park Department liaison, perhaps even allowing him to work in the Arsenal. Then Moses, by bullying or by charm, would take the aide into camp—making him an ally of the Park Department and thereby practically freeing himself of the necessity of winning the

Born to wealth that he believed would make him always independent, Moses felt no compulsion to turn associates into friends; arrogance is, after all, one of the coefficients of money.

He was coauthor of a textbook, Principles of Zoology, his first American work, which went through sixteen editions