This is all thoroughly chronicled in Robert Caro’s The Power Broker, a huge work of non-fiction in both its depth of research and its length — around 1,200 pages. The Robert Moses comic book ...

In Robert Caro's Upper West Side office, it is 1965. "Like right now, just at this moment, Lyndon Johnson is creating Medicare," Caro told me in the middle of a recent interview. "It's July, 1965 ...

“The Power Broker,” the acclaimed book about master builder Robert Moses and his impact on New York City, Long Island and the rest of the state was published 50 years ago this month.

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.

Selected by Frank H. McCourt, Jr., the author of “Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age.” ...

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 ...

Bob Moses, a towering but self-effacing leader of the civil rights movement who, ... the French-Algerian Nobel laureate whose books explored universal questions of human existence and justice. ...

Robert Moses, leader of the voting rights movement in the state, dubbed it “the middle of the iceberg.” Even as the movement scored victories in Nashville, Birmingham, and […] Skip to content ...

Caro and I talk about Johnson, but we mostly talk about Robert Moses and the 1,296-page book Caro wrote, documenting how Moses accumulated and dispensed power. He's thinking decades ahead of ...