Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New York, is also a reflection on “the dangers of unchecked power,” and remains more resonant and relevant than ever. By Alexandra ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of Caro's first book, The Power Broker. It told the story of how urban planner Robert Moses reshaped New York City and state through the roads and bridges he ...

The book tells the story of how urban planner Robert Moses reshaped New York through the roads and bridges he built and the lives and communities he destroyed. And it began to tell the story of ...

“The book is so massive and intimidating that other historians have been discouraged from writing about Robert Moses,” he told me last week. “All the people on the Upper West Side love ...

Although there are thousands of books set in New York City, just one definitively lays out how the modern city was shaped: “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York” by Robert Caro.

This syndrome is documented incisively in a forthcoming book by Marc J. Dunkelman, Why Nothing Works. “The determination to protect against latter-day Robert Moses-types now serves not only to ...

The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s book about New York City’s master builder, Robert Moses, turned 50 in 2024. Caro’s compelling tale of untrammeled, corrupted power wielded by one man over decades seems ...

1934 Robert Moses gubernatorial campaign poster. Courtesy of New York Historical Society But what struck me most strongly this time around is how Caro’s book also bears witness to the life and ...

It turned out he had never heard he was doing a book on Robert Moses.” Caro first composes in longhand, then types up everything triple-spaced, with a carbon copy, in the old newspaper manner.

“Well,” he says, “having spent years when people were saying to me, ‘Nobody’s going to read a book on Robert Moses,’ that makes me feel very good.” Most of what’s going on view in ...