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Andy Arthur

Getting away this weekend for some rest and relaxation in the wilderness. πŸ•οΈ Hoping for a mostly rain-free weekend, but I'll take whatever the weatherman gives. πŸ˜ƒ And then it's just cruising into Memorial Day πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡²Weekend and kicking off. ⭕️ I was looking at the tube and thinking it won't be long before I'm floating down the East Canada Creek. πŸ–οΈ

Left early this morning to beat the rain 🌧️

The forecast says it’s supposed to rain by around 10 AM this morning though earlier in the day they were warning of rain earlier so I headed in early, going the long way via Menands and stopping a for a while down by the river.

Riding in this morning, I finished up the Power Broker. 50 chapters, 62 hours later (well, 31 hours as I played at 2x speed). πŸ“»οΈ I think its a mistake to say that the Power Broker was a negative book about Robert Moses, if anything it’s a story about a complicated and often conflicted man who got great public works accomplished, even at enormous cost. A man who bent the rules not for personal profit, but to get great things built and increase his own power.

For being such a long book, one of the things most noteworthy is how much is left out of the book, πŸ“šοΈthere is very little ultimately about the Power Authority and Jane Jacobs isn’t mentioned at all, and the LOMEX is only mentioned in passing. The claims about the One MIle in the Bronx got a lot of attention when the book came out, but ultimately as Caro points out it was complicated why Moses chose the route he chose, and it wasn’t as simple as some of the critics of Moses have pointed out over the years. If anything, Caro is far more sympathetic towards Moses then what most of he reports on his book are.

Now I got to find some new e-books and audio books πŸ“šοΈ to bring up to camp for the long weekend. I figure it will be good reading in the hammock.