Robert Caro’s 1974 biography “The Power Broker” is a book befitting its subject, Robert Moses — the unelected parochial technocrat who used a series of appointed positions to entirely reshape New York City and its surrounding environment for generations to come. Like Moses, Caro’s book has exerted an enduring and outsize influence. Caro recently joined The Times’s Book Review Podcast to discuss his experience writing the seminal book, and how he accounts for its continuing legacy.
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As you might have noticed, were putting something different down our feed today.
Its a recent episode of our New York Times podcast about books, hosted by Gilbert Cruz.
In this particular episode, Gilbert speaks with the writer Robert Carrow about his seminal, renowned nonfiction book, the Power Broker, which is now 50 years old.
If you havent read it, and theres no reason to be embarrassed.
If you havent, its the story of Robert Moses, who shaped New York City.
But as the many people who are obsessed with the power broker can tell you, its a singular fable of politics and power in the United States.
Its an incredible story and an incredible book.
OK, heres Gilbert with Robert Caro on the New York Times Book Review podcast.
Take a listen.
Im Gilbert Cruz, editor of the New York Times Book Review, and this is the book review podcast.
This week, I'm joined by a modern master of biography and history writing, Mister Robert Caro.
He has written four volumes of the years of Lyndon Johnson, a multi book work on the life of the 36th president of the United States.
Volume three, master of the Senate, won the Pulitzer Prize.
Volume four, Passage of Power, appeared on our recent list of the best books of the 21st century.
So far.