"One," replied Robert CARO

[UTUSN]

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http://pagesix.com/2015/10/02/how-robert-caros-the-power-broker-came-to-be-published/?_ga=1.86273752.1520768403.1440083066

[font size=5]How Robert Caro’s ‘The Power Broker’ came to be published[/font]

More than 40 years ago, Robert Caro carried his draft of “The Power Broker” into Alfred A. Knopf in seven boxes.
The late, famed publisher Tony Schulte asked him how many copies of his manuscript he’d brought along.

“One,” Caro replied, describing to a literary crowd at Knopf’s 100th anniversary Thursday night how his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses came to be published. “In the era in which we live today, it sometimes seems as if almost everything in the world of books is in constant change and flux,” adding that Knopf “has endured for a hundred years while holding fast to the highest standards and values.”

Also at the packed event at the New York Public Library were authors Judy Blume, Sam Shepard, Renata Adler, Fran Lebowitz, Richard Price, Marisa Acocella Marchetto and Diane Rehm.

Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison described how her first book sold only 300 copies. And Patti Smith gave a surprise performance after telling the crowd, “I’m the new girl.” Her follow-up memoir, “M Train,” is out Tuesday.

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I have read it....man, Caro is a lover of detail, words and repetition.

But such fascinating detail. He puts into context all those names lingering in the back of my mind about history in the 30's.
I have never been to NYC, yet knew/know of Robert Moses.
Glad to know Caro is still around, am so hoping he finishes that 5th Vol. of LBJ's biography, the one about his time in the WH.

[ryan_cats]

3. I read it

I read it, Atlas Shrugged and the Bible during Braveheart.

[Octafish]

2. A college education.

"Irresistible reading. It is like one of the great Russian novels, overflowing with characters and incidents that all fit into a vast mosaic of plot and counterplot. Only this is no novel. This is a college education in power corruption." --George McCue, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SOURCE: http://www.amazon.com/Power-Broker-Robert-Moses-Fall/dp/0394480767/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Thank you for the heads-up, UTUSN. I, too, hope for that LBJ/WH history. Until then, man. What we can learn.

[smirkymonkey]

4. Robert Moses is the ultimate NYC villain.

Jane Jacobs was the ultimate hero for going up against him.