Civil service detail once fascinated Moses as public-spirited work

Evidence

In the area of civil service, however, Mitchel was Moses’ best hope. The Mayor promised to press again in 1917 for standardization and reclassification. After more than three years of unremitting work on the technicalities of civil service, Moses was still fascinated by them and by the potentiality for public good in their improvement. They are not “dry and dull as some may suppose from reading printed salary schedules,” he said in 1917. “A student who wishes to see city government as a whole will find no more interesting…study than that afforded by a standardization program.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 365

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Robert Moses declared public service ambitions as a Yale senior — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 200; Young Moses modeled ideal American civil service on the British Oxford-centered system. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 244; Moses began his career in public service with passionate idealism — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 248 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Moses admired a civil service with a rigidly closed upper class #corroborates (0.80) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 234