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Robert Moses, Power, and the Powerless SOLD OUT

“In that moment I knew that if I wanted to write about power, I would have to write about the powerless as well, would have to write not only about the man who wielded power, but about its effect—for good or ill—on those on whom it was wielded.”

Robert A. Caro recounts an incident that occurred while he was writing his biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, which suddenly made him understand his book had to be very different from the one he had started out to write and that changed his views on the very nature of political biography.

For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has won the Pulitzer Prize twice, the National Book Critics Circle Award three times, and virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the National Humanities Medal.

“Robert Caro is regarded by many as the greatest political biographer of the modern era.” —The Times (London)











When: Tue., Oct. 13, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Where: New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
212-873-3400
Price: $44
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“In that moment I knew that if I wanted to write about power, I would have to write about the powerless as well, would have to write not only about the man who wielded power, but about its effect—for good or ill—on those on whom it was wielded.”

Robert A. Caro recounts an incident that occurred while he was writing his biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, which suddenly made him understand his book had to be very different from the one he had started out to write and that changed his views on the very nature of political biography.

For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has won the Pulitzer Prize twice, the National Book Critics Circle Award three times, and virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the National Humanities Medal.

“Robert Caro is regarded by many as the greatest political biographer of the modern era.” —The Times (London)

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