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The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson's Archives
On a presidential paper trail.
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Robert A. Caro
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The New Yorker
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January 22, 2019
The Day L.B.J. Took Charge
Lyndon Johnson and the events in Dallas.
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Robert A. Caro
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The New Yorker
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March 26, 2012
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The Power Broker
: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
1974
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The Power Broker leaves us ill-equipped to understand or confront the struggles that face the city today.
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Against the Great Man Theory of Historians
Without accounting for the often-invisible work of others in his research, Robert Caro's new memoir is not so much inspiration as an exercise in self-celebration.
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Robert Moses Helped Ruin Penn Station. He'd Have Made it Easier to Fix, Too.
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On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography
Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, disguised, crushed, mocked, diminished, punished, or excoriated.
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The True Measure of Robert Moses (and His Racist Bridges)
Did Robert Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to prevent poor people in buses from them? The truth is complex.
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Emperor of Concrete
A 1974 review of Robert Caro's "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York."
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Gore Vidal
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October 17, 1974
Philanthropy’s Power Brokers
An in-depth reckoning with the Gates Foundation as a discrete actor is long overdue.
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How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing
On the early origins of a very American kind of writing.
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Lee Gutkind
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January 23, 2024
How the New York of Robert Moses Shaped my Father’s Health
My dad grew up in Robert Moses’s New York City. His story is a testament to how urban planning shapes countless lives.
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Katie Mulkowsky
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When Lyndon B. Johnson Chose the Middle Ground on Civil Rights—and Disappointed Everyone
Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality.
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Zachary Clary
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January 23, 2023
Let’s Talk About the Taking of Black Land
From Seneca Village to “urban renewal,” the government has claimed Black property—rarely with the “just compensation” promised by the Fifth Amendment.
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Elie Mystal
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February 19, 2022
The U.S. Senate’s Oldest Office Building Honors a Racist
Richard Russell was a segregationist and a fervent opponent of civil rights. So why does his name still adorn the Russell Senate Office Building?
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Walter Shapiro
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April 26, 2021
Confession of a Feminist I
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The Lost Story of Lady Bird
Why do most chroniclers of LBJ’s presidency miss the centrality and influence of the first lady?
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Julia E. Sweig
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March 15, 2021
Will Trump Burn the Evidence?
How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.
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Jill Lepore
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This Is Not the Senate the Framers Imagined
The Constitution originally provided for the selection of senators by state legislatures, but the 17th Amendment changed that, and with it, the Senate itself.
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Jane Chong
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January 21, 2020
The Way We Write History Has Changed
A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.
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Alexis C. Madrigal
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January 21, 2020
Jane Jacobs vs. The Power Brokers
How the patron saint of progressive urban planning’s ideas and ideals were implemented – and corrupted.
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Sarah Mirk
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Rexford Guy Tugwell and the Case for Big Urbanism
New York City’s first planning commissioner lost a bigger battle against Robert Moses than the fight Jane Jacobs won.
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Garrett Dash Nelson
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January 1, 2018
How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act
Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn’t the Supreme Court.
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Michael O'Donnell
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The Atlantic
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March 19, 2014
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