On PowerRobert A. Caro
On Power
by Robert A. Caro · first published 2019
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A lot of Caro’s responses are included, almost verbatim, in his more recent book “On Power”: https://www.amazon.com/On-Power-Robert-A-Caro-audiobook/dp/B... Definitely recommend the audiobook if you haven’t heard it already. Caro’s got a thick Brooklyn accent and a manner of speaking that’s…
on “Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut interview each other (1999)” ↗…state as an entity desirous to ignore feedback from citizens, rather than actively responsive to citizen opinion. Robert Caro has written amazing books. I'm half-way through this two-hour dialog titled "On Power"[0]. He says he essentially stumbled into writing The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York[1] after observing how Robert Moses (an unelected bureaucrat) completely controlled huge "democratic"…
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