Goldman Sach's big financial rebound raises some eyebrows Sep 16, 2009
Favorite book: The Power Broker by Robert Caro. His iPod has: 2,600 songs, many from the '60s and '70s, including the Beatles and Gloria Gaynor. (USA Today -- Money)
In ‘Wrestling With Moses,’ taking on Goliath in Gotham Aug 31, 2009
Moses, the subject of Robert Caro s classic biography The Power Broker, got his way by using his political connections, his relationships with real estate developers, and moving aggressively so as to cut off the possibility of community opposition killing his massive projects. Before Jacobs, Moses literally bulldozed through community opposition. (Boston Globe)
IN MY LIBRARY: JOEL KLEIN Aug 9, 2009
I think Robert Caro shows how people with great ambition use power to affect change. An American Tragedy. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Black and White Jul 1, 2009
Susan Orlean "just finished reading Madame Bovary on [her] iPhone," while Robert Caro writes first drafts by hand and final drafts on a typewriter that "they stopped making about 25 years ago.". Oxford American, June 2009In the annual "Best of the South" issue, a writer recalls the of a guide on a tour of civil rights memorials. (Slate)
LETTER: City planning leaves a lot to be desired May 12, 2009
"Power Broker; Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro" is THE cook book on how to steamroll elected officials to GET THINGS DONE. It also paints Robert Moses as the poster boy for myopic, egocentric urban planning. Though his vision of parks and parkways was laudable in 1924 when he started, his vision of the needs of New York, especially Long Island was totally out of touch with the needs of the average citizens. (Beverly Citizen, MA)
'Variety' asks: Which movie changed your life? Mar 19, 2009
Biographer Robert Caro. Lawrence of Arabia (1962). (USA Today -- Life)
