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99% Invisible
The hosts praised it as one of the greatest works of nonfiction in American literature, noting they had been breaking down its pages episode by episode and had worked through most of the book.
We have been taking on one of the greatest works of nonfiction writing or I would say writing period in American literature, The Power Broker by Robert Caro.
— Episode: The Flop House: Megalopolis, with Roman...
Episode: The Flop House: Megalopolis, with Roman Mars
The hosts praised it as one of the greatest works of nonfiction in American literature, noting they had been breaking down its pages episode by episode and had worked through most of the book.
We have been taking on one of the greatest works of nonfiction writing or I would say writing period in American literature, The Power Broker by Robert Caro.
Every month, we break down 100 pages of it. And we just recorded our penultimate summary episode. We actually made our way through most of the book at this point.
And this movie, Megalopolis, there's so much about it that is so clearly indebted to a certain idea of Robert Moses, the subject of The Power Broker.