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Robert Caro
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"Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people’s lives every day."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Power
"I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Beauty
"We’re taught Lord Acton’s axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don’t believe it’s always true any more. Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Power
"If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill – the human cost of public works. That’s what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Power
"I don’t think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Power
"You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Power
"You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody’s switching to a computer. And I’m sort of laughed at."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Legal
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