The Power Broker
The Power Broker is a biographical work by Robert Caro, published in 1974, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. It documents in detail how Robert Moses accumulated and exercised power and is regarded as a classic study of urban power structures.
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Robert Caro published the biography "The Power Broker" in 1974, deeply analyzing Robert Moses's exercise of power.
The reason Caro's Moses biography became a classic is that it dissected the mechanisms by which power operates: the concentration of discretionary power, the dissolution of opposing voices, and the moral cover of the "getting things done" narrative.
Robert Caro's "The Power Broker" (1974) won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Caro reveals in "The Power Broker" that Bronx politician Henry Epstein, who opposed the Cross Bronx Expressway, was destroyed by Moses by exposing his extramarital affair.
The first draft of "The Power Broker" was 1.05 million words, and the final published version was about 700,000 words, with 350,000 words cut.
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Robert Caro published the biography "The Power Broker" in 1974, deeply analyzing Robert Moses's exercise of power.
50%UnverifiedThe reason Caro's Moses biography became a classic is that it dissected the mechanisms by which power operates: the concentration of discretionary power, the dissolution of opposing voices, and the moral cover of the "getting things done" narrative.
50%UnverifiedRobert Caro's "The Power Broker" (1974) won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
50%UnverifiedCaro reveals in "The Power Broker" that Bronx politician Henry Epstein, who opposed the Cross Bronx Expressway, was destroyed by Moses by exposing his extramarital affair.
50%UnverifiedThe first draft of "The Power Broker" was 1.05 million words, and the final published version was about 700,000 words, with 350,000 words cut.
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