I must have heard a hundred times, nobody's going to read a book about Robert Moses... Now they tell me it's in its 74th printing, he added brightly.
Five decades after its publication, The Power Broker endures as a revered classic, prized as much for its elegant, novelistic prose as its blunt lessons on the uses and abuses of political power.
The book that Caro feared might never be published went on to win the Pulitzer Prize, sell hundreds of thousands of copies and influence generations of journalists, historians and politicians.
This year, The Power Broker is being celebrated with an installation at the New-York Historical Society, which features a selection of handwritten notes, photographs and edited manuscript pages from Caro's archives.
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