Robert Moses and the Transformation of New York

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 3, 2017

Kenneth T. Jackson, director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History and the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University, where he has also chaired the department of history, and the author of Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (Norton, 2008), and Lisa Keller, professor of history at SUNY Purchase and the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City (Yale University Press, 2010), talk about Robert Moses for the latest installment of the October election year series, People’s Guide to Power: Real Estate Edition.

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