Sympathy for the Devil

The Power Broker by Robert Caro deserves its reputation as a masterpiece. One of the best books I’ve ever read and up there in my pantheon of non-fiction books with Breaks of the Game and What it Takes . Reading this book from the perspective of 2025, I think Robert Caro got Robert Moses wrong. 1 Yes, he was obsessed with power. Yes, he ruined neighborhoods and destroyed communities with highways…