The Power Broker Robert Caro

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caro spent academic year of 1965–1966 nieman fellow @ harvard university. during class on urban planning , land use, experience of watching moses returned him.



they talking 1 day highways , got built...and here these mathematical formulas traffic density , population density , on, , of sudden said myself: wrong. isn t why highways built. highways built because robert moses wants them built there. if don t find out , explain people robert moses gets power, else going dishonest.



to so, caro began work on biography of moses, power broker: robert moses , fall of new york, study of caro s favorite theme: acquisition , use of power. expected take 9 months complete, instead took him until 1974. work based on extensive research , 522 interviews, including 7 interviews moses himself, several michael madigan (who worked moses 35 years); , numerous interviews sidney shapiro (moses s general manager forty years); interviews men worked , knew moses’s mentor, new york governor al smith. during 1967-1968 academic year, caro worked on book carnegie fellow @ columbia university graduate school of journalism.


his wife, ina, functioned research assistant. master s thesis on verrazano-narrows bridge stemmed work. @ 1 point sold family home , took teaching job robert financially able finish book.


the power broker viewed [1] seminal work because combined painstaking historical research smoothly flowing narrative writing style. success of approach evident in chapter on construction of cross-bronx expressway, caro reported controversy perspectives, including of neighborhood residents. result work of powerful literary academic interest. upon publication, moses denounced biography in 23-page statement.








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