Caro and his wife “watched our savings run out, and we sold our house to keep going, and the money from the sale ran out.”[4] They struggled on somehow. It took Caro seven years to finish his book. But a story that seemed destined to be a tragedy ended in triumph. When The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York was finally published in 1974, it won the Pulitzer Prize and became an improbable bestseller. Not only is the book still in print, it is considered one of the greatest dissections of political power ever written.
