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The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
  • Wholly Moses

    We revisit the legacy of Robert Moses as three New York City museums are collaborating to remember New York’s 20th Century Master Builder. We ask what lessons we can learn from Moses’ successes and failures with guests ranging from critical biographer Robert Caro to activist Majora Carter. Plus, congressman Gregory Meeks talks race and we hear a preview of the New York State budget.

Teaching Tom

Gregory Meeks, Congressman (D- NY 6) reacts to Congressman Tom Tancredo's comments about the Congressional Black Caucus.

Hardt of the Matter

Bob Hardt, executive producer and political director, New York 1, previews the New York State budget.

Child's Play

David Elkind, professor of child development at Tufts University and author, The Power of Play (Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2006), and Susan Solomon, architectural historian and author, American Playgrounds: Revitalizing Community Space (University Press of New England, 2005), discuss rethinking playgrounds.

Imagination Playground, currently in development and slated to begin construction in the fall of 2007

Wholly Moses

A new joint exhibition at three New York City museums looks at the legacy of Robert Moses. We'll hear from guests Robert Caro, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Moses, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Knopf, 1974)
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Hilary Ballon, architectural historian and professor at Columbia University, curator of "Robert Moses and the Modern City" exhibitions and Kenneth T. Jackson , Jacques Barzun professor of history and the social sciences at Columbia University, co-editors of the publication that accompanies the exhibitions, Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (W.W. Norton, 2007)
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Majora Carter, founder and executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, shares her views of Moses' legacy and her views on development, and listeners calls on development in their neighborhoods.

Robert Moses and the Modern City will be on view at The Museum of the City of New York, The Queens Museum and The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University.

Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Events
Majora Carter will participate in a roundtable discussion at a symposium "Learning from Robert Moses" on Thursday, February 1st at the New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, 5:30 -7:00 PM. Advanced reservations are required and there is an admission charge.

Robert Caro will speak about Robert Moses on February 11th at 3:00PM at The Museum of the City of New York.

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Mixed Up

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