Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-07-05
Books mentioned on Part One: The Man Who Ruined New York
Robert and Bridgett Todd sit down to talk about Robert Moses, a man who loved racism almost as much as he hated public transit. See omnystudio.
Robert Evans discussed Joining the Club: A History of Jews and Yale (The Yale Scene: University Series) by Dan A. Oren and others, A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin, The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro, and The Routes Not Taken by Joseph B. Raskin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Joining the Club: A History of Jews and Yale (The Yale Scene: University Series)
Discussed“I found a book uh Joining the Club which began as a sophomore term paper by a guy named Dan A. Orin uh who's a 1979 Yale grad um that documents anti-semitism reaching from fraternity brothers to board trustees at Yale.”
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A Peace to End All Peace
Discussed“And I'm going to I'm going to read a quote from the book, A Peace to Endall Peace, that describes how this functioned in practice. The cabinet, which is like the governing agency of the condominium, in this instance, allowed Kitchener's agency to establish the prototype of the form of rule”
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The Power Broker
The Power Broker by Robert A.
Discussed“And I'm going to quote now from Robert Keros's The Power Broker, which is a book about Bob Moses. Quote, "This lesson Moses would often recite to associates. He would put it this way." As long as you're fighting for parks, you can be sure of having public opinion on your side.”
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The Routes Not Taken
Discussed“To never stop building, as Joe Rascin, author of the routes not taken, puts it. The idea was to allow the subway system to expand and let the city go around it. he says. And so subway lines stretched quickly by today's standards anyway into undeveloped areas”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged After the Revolution
“I have a novel, After the Revolution. You can find it on AK Press if you go to their website. You can find it on Amazon. Just just Google After the Revolution novel and you'll be able to buy it some”