#Pulitzer Prize Robert Caro

1. It is time.
2. I am starting on one of the best books of the 20th century:
3. The Power Broker.
4. This will be a joy to read and also a challenge.
5. My last challenge was Bolaño’s 2666 (1148 pages.)
6. Robert Caro does one better…. 1286 pages.
7. The book weighs 3 pounds….and is a “lap book”
8. …too heavy to hold!

1. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a
2. 1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro.
3. The New York Times is celebrating the 50th aniversary with a very good article:
4. dd 12.09.2024 Robert Caro “The Power Broker”
5. NOTE: I’ve got to get one of those mugs from the gift shoppe in NYC!

1. The book focuses on the creation and use of power in New York local and state politics,
2. as witnessed through Moses’s use of unelected positions to design and implement
3. dozens of highways and bridges, sometimes at great cost to t0 the
   
4. he communities he nominally served.
5. It has been repeatedly
6. named one of the best biographies of the 20th century,
7. and has been highly influential
8. on city planners and politicians throughout the United States.
9. The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975.

1. So as I settle into the Fall season,…temps going down…leaves turning color
2. …I will finally enjoy many, many wonderful reading hours with the great Robert Caro
3. The introduciton begins with a quote by Sophocles
4. …that I will keep in mind for a long time:

“On must wait until the evening

to see how splendid the day has been”