![]() in political science from Columbia University. ![]() He went on to study government at Oxford, and received a Ph.D. Moses attended Yale, where he starred on Yale’s swim team. Robert Moses was born to privilege in 1888 in New Haven, Conn., where his father owned a successful department store and his mother found the local culture lacking. In the 40 years since-through trips to Texas for research on Caro’s multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, through his back problems, through his near fatal bout of pancreatitis in 2002-they have gone to France in all but four years since the publication of The Power Broker. “The stewardess conferred with the captain,” Caro said, “and they found us this little hotel in Paris.” When they boarded the plane, they didn’t even know where they were going to stay when they landed. The next day, Caro and his wife, Ina, packed their bags, drove to the airport, and bought two tickets to Paris. “How long does it take a check like this to clear?” he asked her. When the check from The New Yorker-which paid Caro more than he had been paid on the actual book-arrived in Nesbit’s mail, she called Caro to let him know. I didn’t excerpt it I condensed it.” Revisions went back and forth for weeks before Caro finally signed off on versions he could tolerate. ![]() And here’s why: He had expected excerpts, that I would take whole, coherent chapters the way he had written them. “Bob agreed to the deal, but he absolutely hated what I had done,” Whitworth said. ![]()
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