Robert A. Caro · 1974
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“The way we remember Robert Moses today is based on a reputation that was calcified in the 1970s, when The Power Broker came out and when New York was experiencing a dark age…”
Why: Described as part of the best-written accounts of how political power actually works.
Dwarkesh Patel, Host on Dwarkesh PodcastWhat Robert Caro’s books taught me about power
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“The Power Broker came out. It was an immensely influential book. We were concerned about so much power being centralized and delegated to one…”
Dwarkesh Patel, Host on Dwarkesh PodcastWhat Robert Caro learned about power after studying it for 50 years
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