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Dictator Book Club: Orban from Astral Codex Ten describes the rise to power of Viktor Orban, dictator of Hungary.
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Robert Moses Was a Failure in the First 5 Years of His Career
In the early years of his career, Robert Moses—with all of his idealism and arrogance—failed to reform the New York City government and improve efficiency as he proposed. None of his reforms were ultimately taken up and Tammany Hall retook the mayorship from the ‘Boy Mayor’, John Purroy Mitchel the reformist, after three short years.
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Physically making progress on a project makes it much harder to undo due to loss aversion and the sunk cost fallacy.
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Robert Moses Seized Political Power Through the New York State Council of Parks
Although Robert Moses began his career as an idealistic reformer, he wrote a bill that gave himself far-reaching powers through the New York State Council of Parks and the Long Island Park Commission. A close confidant of Governor Al Smith, Robert Moses pushed his idea of a park system of an unprecedented scale and wrote the bill, essentially appointing himself as the chairmen and president.