 Neighborhoods were obliterated by his edict to make room for new neighborhoods reared at his command. 50 years ago in July, the New Yorker began publishing The Power Broker. And when the book appeared, it ran over 1,200 pages and won a Pulitzer Prize, an absolute landmark of political reporting and biography. And by any reckoning, it's one of the most celebrated works of nonfiction published in this country.