This is the twelfth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro.
We’ve waited until the evening to see how splendid the day has been, and for this final installment, there was only one guest truly worthy of the last slot: Robert Caro. This time, he discusses the book’s lasting legacy, parallels to today, and how he decided on the last line of the book.
This week, Elliott and Roman also cover the final section of Part 7 (Chapter 47 through Chapter 50), discussing the major story beats and themes.
To those of you who turned every page with us: thank you.
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Amazing book. Thanks for doing this, I’m not from the US but I imagine politics must be quite similar everywhere. I have to say you were a little offset with your guest and the chapters I would have liked you guys discussed with them, but otherwise it was awesome. And I needed Elliot’s New Yorker perspective.
Mr. Caro is a good salesman, he almost convinced me to read the LBJ books but I just don’t particularly care about LBJ or US politics history, but Caro is such a good writer. I was interested on Moses because of urbanism and found a much bigger book. Thanks again for doing this.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Mr. Caro is a national resource. I read the book about 20 years ago. Like “don’t go in the basement” moments in a horror movie, I kept thinking “Don’t give him yet another position.”
Merch thought: a t-shirt that just says “Why weren’t they grateful?”.
Felicidades, es un podcast excelente y el diseño de su sitio web simplemente es el mejor. Ahora mismo estoy produciendo un podcast en español y ustedes son una gran inspiración. Saludos desde México.