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| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters | 2016 | Winner | “Robert Caro received the National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2016. The Power Broker is his most celebrated work.” |
About This Book
The definitive account of Robert Moses, the unelected power broker who shaped modern New York City through six decades of public works projects, urban renewal, highways, and parks. Robert Caro's landmark biography—more than a thousand pages—is widely regarded as the greatest work of American nonfiction, an exploration of power itself. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
About the Author
Robert CaroAmerican
Robert Caro is an American author and biographer widely considered the greatest living practitioner of biographical nonfiction in the English language. Born in New York City in 1935, Caro studied at Princeton University and worked as a journalist and investigative reporter before devoting his career to two monumental, multi-volume biographical projects: a life of urban planner Robert Moses and a life of Lyndon Johnson. His biography The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) won the Pulitzer Prize and is considered one of the greatest works of American nonfiction ever published—a 1,300-page account of power, ambition, and the making of modern New York. Read more →
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