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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
National Book · 2016 · Winner
Award History
| 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 A. CaroAmerican
Robert Allan Caro, born October 30, 1935, is an American journalist and author renowned for his exhaustive biographies of political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. His seminal work, The Power Broker (1974), a Pulitzer Prize-winning study of Moses's exercise of power in shaping New York, is considered a modern classic, while his multi-volume The Years of Lyndon Johnson series (1982–2012) has earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and numerous other accolades, including the National Humanities Medal. Read more →
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