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'Book Review': Robert Caro on 50 Years of 'The Power Broker'

'Book Review': Robert Caro on 50 Years of 'The Power Broker'

The Daily vor 2 Jahren

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Robert Caro’s 1974 biography “The Power Broker” is a book
befitting its subject, Robert Moses — the unelected parochial
technocrat who used a series of appointed positions to entirely
reshape New York City and its surrounding environment for
generations to come. Like Moses, Caro’s book has exerted an
enduring and outsize influence. Caro recently joined The Times’s
Book Review Podcast to discuss his experience writing the seminal
book, and how he accounts for its continuing legacy.

You can find more information about that episode here.

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