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2 books recommended · 2 episodes
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“While writing Master of the Senate, volume 3 of his Johnson biographies, Caro interviewed former Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge.”
Why: Part of the greatest explorations of political power ever written.
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
Host on Dwarkesh PodcastWhat Robert Caro’s books taught me about power
“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.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Host on Dwarkesh PodcastWhat Robert Caro’s books taught me about power
Their own books, or books they discussed with the author. Not counted as recommendations.
“The Power Broker came out. It was an immensely influential book. We were concerned about so much power being centralized and delegated to one…”
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Host on Dwarkesh PodcastWhat Robert Caro learned about power after studying it for 50 years
“Means of Ascent, the book about the election with Coke Stevenson, the 1948 Senate election. That is my favorite book perhaps ever.”
Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro
Host on Dwarkesh PodcastWhat Robert Caro learned about power after studying it for 50 years