The book’s 1,162 pages constitute ... the label of urban renewal. All of this would have happened throughout urban America had there never been a Robert Moses. NONE OF THIS CONDONES Moses ...

On a cloudy evening earlier this month, visitors roamed the halls of the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan, perusing the museum’s latest exhibit, “Robert ... book, Caro describes how ...

And across it Robert Moses writes ... Caro is still chipping away at that final Johnson book. It houses Caro's complete archives, all available for the next generation of historians.

“The book is so massive and intimidating that other historians have been discouraged from writing about Robert Moses,” he told me last week. “All the people on the Upper West Side love ...

Samuel Zipp’s book Manhattan Projects describes another Moses victory ... His biographer, Lizabeth Cohen, quotes a colleague describing Logue as “Robert Moses and the anti–Robert Moses all at once. He ...

Like Moses, Caro’s book has exerted an enduring ... “This is a particular kind of power. Robert Moses’ power was unchecked power. We all live in a democracy where we think that power comes ...

Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New ... The mug, which the museum sells for $19.95, boasts in all caps: “I Finished The Power Broker.” Caro usually dislikes cracks ...

In a book he published during Caro’s sophomore ... on the total number of people evicted from their homes for all Robert Moses public works,” Caro reports, but it is “almost certainly ...

The historian shows off the most precious volumes in his collection — including a library book that has been overdue ... on his titanic biographies of Robert Moses (which took seven years ...

Fortunately, Caro did ultimately agree — and the book was published, much to the ire of Moses ... Courtesy of Robert Caro Archive/New York Historical Society Most of all, what both NYHS exhibits ...

“From its inception, Robert Moses did his best to try to keep this book from being written ... ‘Master of the Senate,’” Caro said. All of Caro’s stories about the times when he ...