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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses; what it felt like to begin discovering the extent of the political power Moses wielded; the combination of discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the vast holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas; his encounters with witnesses, including longtime residents wrenchingly displaced by the construction of Moses' Cross-Bronx Expressway and Lady Bird Johnson acknowledging the beauty and influence of one of LBJ's…
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5 editions- Paperback · English · 2020Vintage · 240 pages · 9780593081914
- Hardcover · English · 2019Knopf · 240 pages · 9780525656340
- Other · English · 2021Penguin Random House · 9781529112030
- Other · English · 2019Penguin Random House · 240 pages · 9781847926050
- Other · English · 2019Penguin Random House · 240 pages · 9781473572416
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