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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"One," replied Robert CARO
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[font size=5]How Robert Caros The Power Broker came to be published[/font]
More than 40 years ago, Robert Caro carried his draft of The Power Broker into Alfred A. Knopf in seven boxes.
The late, famed publisher Tony Schulte asked him how many copies of his manuscript hed brought along.
One, Caro replied, describing to a literary crowd at Knopfs 100th anniversary Thursday night how his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses came to be published. In the era in which we live today, it sometimes seems as if almost everything in the world of books is in constant change and flux, adding that Knopf has endured for a hundred years while holding fast to the highest standards and values.
Also at the packed event at the New York Public Library were authors Judy Blume, Sam Shepard, Renata Adler, Fran Lebowitz, Richard Price, Marisa Acocella Marchetto and Diane Rehm.
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison described how her first book sold only 300 copies. And Patti Smith gave a surprise performance after telling the crowd, Im the new girl. Her follow-up memoir, M Train, is out Tuesday.
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)But such fascinating detail. He puts into context all those names lingering in the back of my mind about history in the 30's.
I have never been to NYC, yet knew/know of Robert Moses.
Glad to know Caro is still around, am so hoping he finishes that 5th Vol. of LBJ's biography, the one about his time in the WH.
ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)I read it, Atlas Shrugged and the Bible during Braveheart.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)SOURCE: http://www.amazon.com/Power-Broker-Robert-Moses-Fall/dp/0394480767/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Thank you for the heads-up, UTUSN. I, too, hope for that LBJ/WH history. Until then, man. What we can learn.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Jane Jacobs was the ultimate hero for going up against him.