Robert Caro on Robert Moses SD

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9 жыл бұрын

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Pulitzer Prize Winner, Robert Caro, discusses "The Power Broker" - his biography of Robert Moses!

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@mgoldman60 4 жыл бұрын

Robert Caro has gotten a lot more humorous over the years. He was pretty serious and intense in the early 80s when the first Johnson book came out.

@Cheepchipsable 2 жыл бұрын

He has made some money, so he can relax a bit. Just watched a 90's interview where he sold his first home and moved into an apartment to bankroll his first book that took him years. He was being interviewed about his first Lyndon Johnson book, and he was quite guarded in most of his responses, very cautious not to say anything he though he couldn't verify.

@geojohnson7608 6 жыл бұрын

Moses was the definition of the Evil Genius. Complete

@ripred42 3 жыл бұрын

Right down to the evil lair on an island

@vincentcaliendo6402 2 жыл бұрын

Wow what a great talk, love to hear his insights and first hand accounts of RM.

@mck1972 8 жыл бұрын

I am currently reading, ' The Power Broker '. What comes through crystal clear in this book is that Moses was an absolutely Ruthless, Remorseless, Amoral, Power-Hungry, Egomaniacal, Arrogant, SOB! What also comes through crystal clear, is that Moses got results...

@Bozewani 8 жыл бұрын

Moses only cared one thing as long as he fulfilled his megalomaniacal visions but New York did become a modern city because of his projects

@darrenpat182 7 жыл бұрын

New York was nearly bankrupted in the 1970s largely because of his projects

@mck1972 7 жыл бұрын

He also loathed Public Transportation so much (Buses, Trains, Subways, Etc.), that tragically, the lack of resources devoted severely retarded the Quality and Safety of NY's Mass Transit System for decades to come...

@agoo7581 4 жыл бұрын

He nearly bankrupted and created an infrastructure that skyrocketed poverty, crime, and pollution in the city which was only undone through large progressive reform in the 90s. Moses "got results" in the same way that Hitler "got results".

@mck1972 4 жыл бұрын

@@agoo7581 , Moses was certainly no Saint, but let's be careful of making comparisons to Hitler.

@pedrod.7576 14 күн бұрын

20:49 I was doubletaking and thinking I had dropped something here, lmao.

@freedomfries6618 4 жыл бұрын

What sticks with me, more than anything else in the book, was the terrible way Moses treated his brother.

@zekecontreras4055 3 жыл бұрын

True, apparently because of a young lady that the Moses brothers competed for.

@stevenwolfe7101 2 жыл бұрын

When I grew up, Robert Moses was popularly considered a "hero" for having all the highways surrounding New York built. With the passage of time, the image began to change and with the Caro book it changed dramatically. The multiple volumes on LBJ had a similar effect upon me. On the one hand, on the issue of civil rights, he accomplished more than any of his predecessors did. He could accomplish this because he was a Southerner and politically very powerful. But what I weigh against this is the prolonging of the Vietnam was and the lies that surrounded that aspect of our foreign policy. That he could be blunt, gross, and obscene only meant he did the same thing as did his predecessor but with no grace or elegance and with less selectivity in his choice of women.

@pjg_77 4 жыл бұрын

Edward Norton & Joe “DMT Rogan bought me here #LookIntoIt

@justbrowsingtheweb7791 7 жыл бұрын

this is interesting but the sound is too low

@timothylines3867 5 жыл бұрын

the second and third AV. bridge?

@busterbiloxi3833 4 жыл бұрын

Great accent. He says "tawk" instead of "talk".

@agoo7581 4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on just now discovering what a "New York Accent" in the year 2020.

@mannken1 3 жыл бұрын

Authentic articulate New Yawker. Could listen all day long.

@stevensica89 2 жыл бұрын

@@agoo7581 Don't forget: Lawng Guyland.

@williammorris584 Жыл бұрын

Make that “towak”.

@sybildavis463 Жыл бұрын

Just as a reminder, here is one of Robert Moses' rebuttal paragraphs to Robert Caro in 1974: The critics and second guessers say we were sometimes rude, arbitrary and highhanded. Maybe so, but suppose we had waited. Critics are ex post facto prophets who can tell how everything should have been done at a time when they were in diapers, in rompers or invisible. We ditch-diggers do our best to live up to our oaths of office with the slender talents vouchsafed us. We enjoy our work. We accept its drawbacks without whining. We expect neither full understanding by the Caros and Knopfs, nor unqualified popular acclaim by The New Yorker. I would suggest Caro's complete conviction about Moses' "racism" is open to debate. I would also suggest that had Caro done a seven year investigation of Fred Trump and his record as a "builder" rather than Robert Moses back in the 70's both our country and the world at large might have several million more people alive today who otherwise died in great pain and agony UNNECESSARILY. Moses was indeed a flawed individual, but he was a Saint compared to the Sewage which typifies (for the most part) the "brand" known as Trump!

@mck1972 Жыл бұрын

It is certainly true that Hindsight is 20/20, and that we cannot credibly judge the Past, using the standards of the Present. However-Most of Caro's critiques of Moses were based on the conduct that Moses himself used at the time: I.e.: Using, ' Eminent Domain ', to procure land from those who lacked the resources to resist, and keeping secret files on political enemies, real, imagined, or even potential. Nor is it Caro's job to research every figure in New York History, and compare/contrast them to Moses-Regardless of how strongly you personally appear to disapprove of them.

@dante6563 Жыл бұрын

@@mck1972 We can certainly judge his past actions using the standards of the present for the simple fact there were people from all walks of life directly opposing his projects and pointing out how foolish and car-centric they were.

@mck1972 Жыл бұрын

@@dante6563 , IF in fact there were those making such judgments about Moses At That Time, then they were judging him by the standards of their present-Not ours.

@dante6563 Жыл бұрын

@@mck1972 THEY WERE because in the book he wrote, many people were trying to convince Moses of alternatives and people were protesting his actions.

@mck1972 Жыл бұрын

@Dante Right-By the standards of THEIR Present-Not OURS! So what are we debating here?

@Kristofur77 5 ай бұрын

Instead of calling him a racist, maybe he was trying to encourage people to better themselves to buy vehicles, so they can use the roads and not rely on public transportation. White people are poor too, you make it sound like he only challenged poor non-white people