The Power Broker #12: Robert Caro

权力掮客#12:罗伯特·卡罗

99% Invisible

艺术

2024-12-21

2 小时 31 分钟
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Featuring our hero, Robert Caro, and covering the final section of Part 7, chapters 47-50.

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  • And I'm Elliot Kalin.

  • Today is the day, my friends.

  • We are finishing the book.

  • If you want to get precise.

  • We're covering chapters 47 through 50, pages 1082 through 1162.

  • Now we said last episode that we were not going to cover the notes section after the end of the book, but I guess you're just going to have to stick around to find out if I can keep that promise.

  • And later in this episode, our special guest is none other than Robert Caro himself.

  • As we close the book and the series, we wanted to visit him again to get his perspective on the ending and the book's legacy.

  • So on the last power broker breakdown, we learned that Robert Moses tried to put a parking lot in the Tavern in the Green.

  • On the Tavern in the Green.

  • In the Tavern on the Green.

  • I'm not sure one of those choose your own preposition and ran against some moms who did not want it there.

  • And it was kind of his first big New York newspaper defeat, which was a big deal, even though the crime itself was probably not as big a deal.

  • And it sort of tarnished Moses reputation for infallibility and incorruptibility.