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Robert A. Caro named first-ever Founders Historian Laureate by The New York Historical

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Robert A

The Independent UK

50 years after 'The Power Broker,' Robert Caro's dreams are still coming true

Robert Caro spends most of his days writing the fifth and final volume of his Lyndon Johnson series, more than a decade in the making and still without a scheduled release date

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Floating Failure

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This oral history of the 'Village Voice' captures its creativity and rebelliousness

Tricia Romano's The Freaks Came Out To Write chronicles the passion and talent that made a great American newspaper — and the forces that killed it.

WEKU

OPINION - Why can't we just repair Hammersmith Bridge?

Robert Moses wouldn't have put up with this nonsense. The man who did more than practically any other to shape modern-day New York would have taken one look at Hammersmith Bridge and ordered it rebuilt at any price. Though, being Moses, it probably would have involved 16 lanes, the unnecessary…

Evening Standard

Your autograph, Mr. Caro? Ahead of 50th anniversary, 'Power Broker' author feels like a movie star

Robert Caro is still busy working on the presumed last volume of his series on Lyndon Johnson

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Robert Caro, Gottlieb and the mystic chords of memory

They may be publishing most famous author-editor pairing

The Independent UK

London’s lost mega-motorway: the eight-lane ring road that would have destroyed much of the city

In the car-crazed 1960s, planners came up with a scheme to slash through the capital’s inner suburbs with huge freeways. Only fragments were ever built – but they tell of a fate narrowly avoided

The Guardian - UK

Revisiting San Juan Hill, the neighborhood destroyed to make way for Lincoln Center

In New York City, the area dominated by Lincoln Center was formerly home to Black and Puerto Rican communities. Etienne Charles' new musical work addresses that difficult past.

WEKU

The Death of Walt Disney's Private Dream City?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to end a wildly successful half-century experiment in municipal governance.

Reason

The week in theatre: Straight Line Crazy; The Human Voice – review

Ralph Fiennes is firing on all cylinders in David Hare’s new play about a New York highway builder; and Ruth Wilson is beguiling in an unsubtle staging of Cocteau’s monologue

The Guardian - UK

Jiggery-wokery: the real obstacle to a united front on Ukraine

Concern about a placename’s associations with slavery – unlike cosying up to oligarchs – doesn’t put anyone on Russia’s side

The Guardian - UK

Straight Line Crazy review: Ralph Fiennes taps into his inner Pacino

David Hare’s play about New York city planner Robert Moses doesn’t represent the best work of anyone involved

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Straight Line Crazy review – Ralph Fiennes enthrals as the man who shaped New York

Fiennes heads an electrifying cast in David Hare’s dynamic portrait of Robert Moses, an aggressive yet visionary urban planner who refused to back down

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