I've read The Power Broker three times. Am I a sick person? Moses' Triborough Bridge Authority was indeed probably the model for the toll-road authorities of the nearby states. Since Caro's book there have been some works by other historians that rehabilitate Moses' reputation a bit, but I believe Caro is largely right on.

One interesting piece of paperwork I ran across from the late 1930's was a letter to the Michigan highway department, signed by Moses, urging the creation of a toll-road authority for Michigan [[probably knowing it might mean consulting fees for "the Moses men"). The Metropolitan Parks authority for the counties around Detroit is clearly a replica of Moses' state parks on Long Island. After spending lots of summer afternoons at Metropolitan Beach in the 1960's, I got a strong sense of deja vu on seeing the pictures in the book of Jones Beach.

Now I'm waiting for the last two volumes [[of five) of Caro's biography of LBJ.