"You can do anything, any story, no matter how complicated if you can tell the story through one person," Caro reflected.
This work sets forth the basic political philosophy of Robert Moses concerning efficient government under a democratic system. While at Columbia, Moses was attracted by the work of the Bureau of ...
In his biography of a city bureaucrat, Robert Caro created a lasting portrait of American corruption by turning the craft of ...
Robert A. Caro stands between two giant columns in a second-floor library of the New-York Historical Society, looking out on ...
The Power Broker is turning 50. His final LBJ book is almost — well, he won’t say exactly, but he’s trying for 900 words a ...
"Short-term realist Robert Moses, the Park Commissioner who has become synonymous with the 'practical spirit' of New York's patchwork city planning, would applaud the work of the 'practical men ...
A September 25th screening of the documentary during New York’s Architecture & Design Film Festival will include a Q&A with ...
By that point, Caro’s work was more than three decades old ... the national example of urban crisis. Its subtitle—Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, a late addition in the publishing ...
Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New York, is also a reflection on “the dangers of unchecked power,” ...
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York details in over 1200 pages Moses’ hard work at maintaining power. He built and nurtured political support from a complex coalition of elected officials ...
Robert Caro's Pulitzer-prize winning biography 'The Power Broker' has been given an Ebook release date to coincide with the ...
A few spent matches were found on the partially scorched pillowcase that had swaddled him. His body had suffered burns to his ...