I heard the democracy now broadcast, but never seem to get to the pod
casts...in fact I've never tried one. Too much stuff to do in too
little time. I had been raised to believe that Moses was the Sacred
Savior of New York, but along the way I'd heard that he had created
hardships for many low income families. Some vague threads of feuding
between Superintendent Moses and Mayor Laguardia.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/29/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't know if you heard Robert Caro today on Democracy Now, Not only did
I
hear him on the program, but I then heard Part 2 of the interview which
happily downloaded to my stream this afternoon. I was so really impressed
and entranced by him. Interestingly, he was interviewed on the NYT Book
Review podcast and I barely listened. But anyway, I looked on BARD just now
and found the four volumes that he has so far completed of the Johnson
biography over a really long period of time. The first number is 1800
something, and the last is 7800 something, and all of them are huge. Power
Broker, which he talked about a lot in the second part of the interview,
the
book about Robert Moses, isn't on BARD. Probably because I live where Moses
did his dirty work, I was horrified by some of the things that Caro
described which, if I ever knew them, I've forgotten. So I have these 4
books about Johnson on my wish list. Somehow, I doubt I'll ever get to read
them. I just now started Jill Leper's These Truths, which is a recent,
popular, easy-to-read book about American history. I've read some of her
articles and heard her interviewed. She's lovely.
I think I'd rather read history just now, than current events. (smile)
Miriam
