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 ...

The book’s themes, including unchecked power ... And how many communities and how many lives have been destroyed by a Robert Moses character?” But for Makhijani and others born well after ...

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 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 ...

But one of those Moses roads that actually never got fully built out provides a view of the Staten Island Expressway (another Moses project) that few borough residents have likely ever seen. You’ll ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

I also just picked up “Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City,” by Pierre Christin. What was the appeal of the Moses book? I am fascinated by the history of New York City’s ...

The biggest surprise of “Straight Line Crazy,” David Hare’s new play about the tsarist urban planner Robert Moses, is that it ... young technocrats. The book and its often maligned subject ...