Robert Moses Returns: Power Broker Spurs Caro-Jackson Bout.(Finance)

The New York Observer (New York, NY) | January 29, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: Matthew Schuerman

Sometime last fall, the biographer Robert Caro got a phone call from Roger Hertog, then vice chairman of AllianceBernstein and a rich and powerful New York City history buff. Columbia was planning a big exhibit on Robert Moses, New York's master builder from the mid-20th century, and he wanted to know if Mr. Caro would give a lecture as part of it.

It was the first time, Mr. Caro said, that he had heard from anyone connected to the massive three-part exhibit opening next week, "Robert Moses and the Modern City," which includes ...

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