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99% Invisible
The hosts introduced the episode as a deep dive into the 1974 PulitzerPrizewinning biography The Power Broker, noting how Caro's exhaustive research revealed the vast influence of Robert Moses and describing the book's lasting impact after fifty years.
breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book the power broker by our hero Robert Caro.
— Episode: The Power Broker #01: Robert Caro
Episode: The Power Broker #01: Robert Caro
The hosts introduced the episode as a deep dive into the 1974 PulitzerPrizewinning biography The Power Broker, noting how Caro's exhaustive research revealed the vast influence of Robert Moses and describing the book's lasting impact after fifty years.
breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book the power broker by our hero Robert Caro.
People were telling me basically nobody is going to read a book about Robert Moses. I wrote it... I didn't think many people were gonna read it... Mr. Sean says he's never read anything like it and he's going to publish more of it.
He never told me she submitted it to the New Yorker... the editor in New Yorker was named William Sean... Mr. Sean says he's never read anything like it and he's going to publish more of it than he's ever published of any book.
I never would have believed that it still be going like it is 50 years later.
I wrote it really thinking it's got to be written... I didn't really feel many people were gonna read it, that's the truth.