Moses began his career in public service with passionate idealism

Evidence

Robert Moses’ education was over. He was beginning the career in public service about which he so often had talked with so passionate an idealism. The quadrangles of Oxford were behind him. Instead of cloisters, there would be the arena. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 248

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cultivating his mother’s approval shaped Moses’s public-service ideal — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 158; Robert Moses declared public service ambitions as a Yale senior — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 200; Moses conceived public service as an instrument for implementing great social reforms — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 231 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Moses channeled youthful reform idealism into the civil service commission #expands (0.92) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 296
• Civil service detail once fascinated Moses as public-spirited work #corroborates (0.85) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 365
• Moses’s earliest political education came from a calm, practical woman who outranked him #expands (0.75) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 425