Robert Caro

Robert Caro, a former Newsday reporter, spent seven years on The Power Broker, published in 1974, showing how Robert Moses, who never won an election, shaped New York's roads, bridges and parks through public authorities he controlled. Its account of the neighbourhoods cleared for the Cross Bronx Expressway came from hundreds of interviews. He has applied the same method to Lyndon Johnson's use of power over five decades.