Personal humiliation by politicians drove Moses to embrace their methods

Evidence

It was not just that he obeyed Mrs. Moskowitz and it was not just that he learned her way of thinking; rather it was that, after a while, he seemed almost eager to learn. He had always scorned the considerations of “practical” politics. Practical politicians had crushed and destroyed his dreams and had come near to crushing and destroying him. They had done it with an ease that added humiliation to defeat. And now, given a chance to learn their methods, Bob Moses seemed almost enthusiastic about embracing them. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 430

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether self-interest or some deeper identification explains Moses’s conversion is left ambiguous here.
• XREF: connects to: Moses learned to wield political patronage openly to accomplish his aims — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 955