![]() ![]() ![]() This 1,162-page book is hefty but engrossing, detailed but illuminating and unquestionably demands more patience and perseverance than most biographies. “The Power Broker” is notable both for what it is – a monumental investigative work and piercing exploration of a fascinating personality – and what it is not – an easy-to-digest narrative intended for the casual fan of great biography. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for the third volume (“ Master of the Senate”) and is currently working on the fifth – and presumably final – book in the series. ![]() Caro is best known for his ongoing series covering the life of Lyndon B. Published in 1974, “T he Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York” was Robert Caro’s first book – and earned him the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. ![]()
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