The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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 →