Hostile audiences only intensified Moses’s confidence in his own gospel.

Evidence

Once you saw him on those nights, you could never forget him,” Kaplan recalls. “Tall, handsome—he’d get up on the platform and go right to bat. He wouldn’t pull his punches or try to modify the things he was saying so they’d be less unpopular. Those people had come to hate the word ‘efficiency.’ Talking ‘efficiency’ to them was waving the red flag before the bull. But in those speeches it was efficiency, efficiency, efficiency. The more they booed him, the more self-confident, even arrogant, he seemed. In the worst of it, he went right on talking, and with the attitude ‘When I say this is it, this is it!’ — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 343

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in how conviction and stubbornness interplay in powerful figures; contrasts with accounts of figures who adapted rhetoric to circumstance. — connects to: The young Moses already refused to accept rejection from authority figures — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 183

Broader Connections

• The young Moses already refused to accept rejection from authority figures #expands (0.75) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 183