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‘The Power Broker’ Turns 40: How Robert Caro Wrote a Masterpiece

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Forty years ago today, Caro’s ‘The Power Broker’—a magisterial 1,296-page life of New York master builder Robert Moses—rewrote the rules of biography.

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