{"product_id":"the-five-books-of-robert-moses","title":"The Five Books of (Robert) Moses","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dramatic  playful  brutal  sweeping  and always entertaining reimagining of New York City history  presaging todays political tyranny. A postmodern masterwork that outdoes Pynchon in eccentricityand electricity  with all its dazzling prose. Kirkus Reviews  Starred Review After a domestic terrorist unleashes a dirty bomb in Manhattan in 1970  making the borough uninhabitable  FBI agent Uli Sarkisian finds himself in a world that is suddenly unrecognizable as the United States is faced with its greatest immigration crisis ever: finding housing for millions of its own citizens. The federal government hastily retrofits an abandoned military installation in the Nevada desert  vast in size. Despite the governments best intentions  as the military pulls out of Rescue City  the residents are increasingly left to their own devices  and tribal warfare fuses with democracy  forming a frightening evolution of the two-party system: the gangocracy. Years after the Manhattan cleanup was supposed to have been finished  Uli travels through this bizarre new New York City  where he is forced to reckon with his past  while desperately trying to get out alive. The Five Books of (Robert) Moses alternates between the outrageous present of Rescue City and earlier in the twentieth century  detailing the events leading up to the destruction of Manhattan. We simultaneously follow legendary urban planner Robert Moses through his early years and are introduced to his equally ambitious older brother Paul  a brilliant electrical engineer whose jealousy toward Robert and anger at the devastation caused by the mans urban renewal projects lead to a dire outcome. Arthur Nersesians most important work to date examines the political chaos of todays world through the lens of the past. Fictional versions of real historical figures populate the pages  from major politicians and downtown drag queens to notorious revolutionaries and obscure poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984451563573,"sku":"ByrdShop_1617754994","price":37.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781617754999.jpg?v=1770834017","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-five-books-of-robert-moses","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}