At home the domineering public Moses deferred to his wife and daughters.

Evidence

For years, in all domestic matters, Robert Moses was led by his wife. If, outside, he gave orders, at home, with Mary and their two daughters, Barbara and Jane, he took them. “He was a different man there,” says Joe Ingraham. “So different that if you only knew the public Moses, you’d hardly believe this was the same man.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 2559

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates ch17’s portrait of power corrupting his character — the domestic tenderness survived even as the public man hardened. — connects to: The acquisition of power transformed Moses’ character into overt arrogance — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 1066