Breaking Down The Power Broker (with Conan O'Brien)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Today's episode features #1 Robert Caro superfan, Conan O'Brien (teamcoco.com/) .
The Power Broker (amzn.to/3RhM717) by Robert Caro is a biography of Robert Moses, who is said to have built more structures and moved more earth than anyone in human history. And he did it without ever holding elected office. Outside of New York City, Robert Moses wasn't exceptionally well known. Inside of New York, he was mostly accepted by the media as simply the man who built all those nice parks. But The Power Broker, which is subtitled Robert Moses and The Fall of New York, changed all that. It is a tour de force of journalism, history, and biography. Roman also argues it's really fun to read and is strongly in contention for the best book ever written.
But there is something of a catch, which can hang readers up: the book is a daunting 1200 pages long. As influential and amazing as this bestseller is, many people own an unopened copy gathering dust on their bookshelf. But that is a crime because this book needs to be read or at least discussed at length on a podcast.
Roman Mars and Elliott Kalan (Flop House, Daily Show) are starting The Power Broker book club that will run through all of 2024 as bonus episodes and in this introductory episode, Conan O'Brien joins us to talk all things Robert Caro.
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I’m about halfway through the Power Broker and am talking about it with everyone I see! Or rather, cite random Robert Moses facts at people. I’m so excited about this series!
I’m just finishing The Power Broker now. What a masterpiece!
The book is very long, but it is a pleasure to read. It is so well written
I had the good fortune to read The Power Broker in 1985. I consider it an important element of my overall education.
Like my comment if you too are reading along with Roman.
I love this! Thanks for the episode
As a Connecticut resident until the late 1980s and a frequent visitor to New York City, I found this both entertaining and illuminating. I live in England now and I'm involved in town regeneration. I haven't read The Power Broker, and it is unlikely I'll have the discipline required to tackle it, but I'll keep listening to this podcast and will take copious notes in my head. Thank you.
Is there anyway you can ask the publisher or the author why this boat anchor of a book isn’t an ebook yet?
For what it's worth, the audiobook is superb
Yah I've been wanting to get the e book
The e-book is finally available on Amazon as of 9/16/24!!!!
@@rch308Thank you for letting me know!
Someone left a review of this book and i read it on my Kindle, they said you'd be doing a review of this book 😊