It's the 40th anniversary of Robert Caro's landmark biography of Robert Moses, and Scott Porch explains how Caro dealt with the challenge of his uncooperative subject: "He drew a series of concentric circles on a page with a single dot — Robert Moses — in the center. The first circle was Moses’ family and friends, the next circle was people in regular contact, and so on, to an outer circle of people who knew Moses, and dealt with him, and were willing to discuss it."
September 21, 2014
