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Robert A. Caro: “The Power Broker” 40 Years Later
- noblethrasher 12y agoJohn Siracusa has recommended this book on a number of occasions.
- applecore 12y agoThe seventh paragraph must be the longest I've ever read in the Times.
- smacktoward 12y agoI'm making my way through Caro's monumental multi-volume LBJ documentary The Years of Lyndon Johnson, and it's just fantastic. Highly recommended if you're at all interested in midcentury America.
- nimish 12y agoI wish this would come out in an ebook format. The physical copy is a doorstop.
- skywhopper 12y agoI plowed through the 66 hour audiobook version of this after failing to get through the paper copy. It's a completely fascinating book about all the ways Robert Moses contrived to leverage power to gain more power and ultimately to reshape the entire New York City area to his will. Thankfully Jane Jacobs and many others pushed back before he could destroy Manhattan completely, but his legacy in terms of automobile-dependence, racially segregated neighborhoods, inadequate mass-transit and to be fair, some nice parks, will live on for decades.