Tue, Dec 22 · 6:00 PM PST
Hello all! We will meet online for a discussion of The Power Broker by Robert Caro. (Meeting 2 of 6; Please read all of chapters 12 through 20, about 200 pages, prior to the meeting.)
Per the publisher: "One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens—the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses—and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller.
But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man—an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives..."
We will split the reading and meetings into six per the below schedule (about 200 pages per meeting):
Tue, November 10, 2026: Chapters 1 through 11
You can get the book in paperback or kindle here:
All are welcome!
