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  1. Jul 5, 2024 · “The Power Broker” became a landmark of political reporting and biography, and made Caro one of the most celebrated writers in America.

  2. Jul 14, 2024 · The mechanistic analogous (or attempts) for the previous phenomenological theories are Statistical Mechanics (which rederives thermodynamics from the statistical properties of collections of atoms), General Relativity (which rederives gravitation from the curvature of space time), and Microeconomics (which aims to rederive macroeconomics from th...

  3. 4 days ago · The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a 1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro. The book focuses on the creation and use of power in New York local and state politics, as witnessed through Moses's use of unelected positions to design and implement dozens of highways and bridges, sometimes at great cost to the ...

    • Robert A. Caro
    • 1974
  4. Jul 8, 2024 · Robert Caro is perhaps America’s greatest living biographer, with his books on Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses considered the definitive works on those men. Now 83, he is hard at work on the final volume of his Johnson biography, but has carved out the time to document a little of his own life and research methods in his new book “Working.”

  5. Jul 12, 2024 · THE PASSAGE OF POWER by Robert Caro. Posted on July 12, 2024 in. Literary News. The 4th volume of Robert Caros biography was included on the New York Times list of the best books of the 21st century. Knopf published the book on May 1, 2012.

  6. Jul 16, 2024 · The exhibition draws from the archive of renowned biographer Robert A. Caro, which the New-York Historical Society acquired in 2019. Known for his award-winning works on Robert Moses and...

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  8. Jul 16, 2024 · For 1,280 meticulously researched pages, Caro charts the rise and dominance of Robert Moses over the parks and highways of New York and beyond. Moses’s impact on American life is controversial and complicated. The highways that brutally cut through cities all across America are part of his legacy.

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