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Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, which was chosen by the Modern Library as ...
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a 1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro.The book focuses on the creation and use of power in New York local and state politics, as witnessed through Moses's use of unelected positions to design and implement dozens of highways and bridges, sometimes at great cost to the communities he nominally served.
Moses is the subject of a critical song by NYHC band Sick of It All entitled "Robert Moses was a racist", included on their 2018 album Wake the sleeping dragon!. [75] The band Bob Moses is named after Robert Moses. [76] A fictionalized version of Moses is the main villain of The Unsleeping City, the third season of the web series Dimension 20. [77]
Robert Caro, the author at the center of the documentary, writes towering books of nonfiction — “The Power Broker,” his 1,280-page study of how Robert Moses literally shaped the city of New ...
Caro’s original manuscript was around 1 million words, and some 300,000 had to be removed by Caro and editor Robert Gottlieb just so the book wouldn’t require an extra edition. Missing or drastically cut sections include one on community activist Jane Jacobs, who helped stop Moses’ efforts to build a highway through Greenwich Village, and ...
In 'Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb,' filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb illuminates the decades-long collaboration between the LBJ biographer and his editor, her father.
The pair, both in their late 80s, had worked together for five decades, starting with Caro's biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, and continuing through Caro's first four volumes about Lyndon B. Johnson. Its story is focused on the interplay between writer and editor as they work to finish the fifth book rather than a history of their ...
Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the... View Article The post 1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses ...