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Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts) Fri Aug 23, 2013, 01:01 PM Aug 2013

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro

Highly recommended if you can retain hope in the face of irrefutable evidence of man's inhumanity to man in a political setting.

The author speaks on the book: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/112640-1
Thanks to EFerrari for the link http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=718367

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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro (Original Post) Dark n Stormy Knight Aug 2013 OP

I have the book...errr..tome. dixiegrrrrl Sep 2013 #1

I did the audio version. I didn't mind it being long. It didn't weigh much at all Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2013 #2

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

1. I have the book...errr..tome.

Reply to Dark n Stormy Knight (Original post)

Sun Sep 1, 2013, 03:15 PM

Sep 2013

Been reading it off and on for months now.
Caro, now better known for his 4 volume ( one more vol to come) work of LBJ, is wordy..and repetitious.
But..his bios are incredibly researched, and at least one pound of his humongous books is footnotes and references.
He got a well deserved Pulitzer.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)

2. I did the audio version. I didn't mind it being long. It didn't weigh much at all