Matthew Rhys Is In Talks With Netflix Over Adaptation Of Robert Caro’s ‘The Power Broker’
#News #MatthewRhys #Netflix #RobertCaro #RobertMoses #ThePowerBroker

https://deadline.com/2025/12/matthew-rhys-netflix-robert-caro-the-power-broker-1236631815/

“Rifling Through the Archives With Legendary Historian #RobertCaro”

From #SmithsonianMag (March 2025): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rifling-through-archives-legendary-historian-robert-caro-180985956

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#TheYearsOfLyndonJohnson

I'm personally neither a fan nor a critic of Brennan Lee Mulligan's roleplaying style. But I did enjoy The Power Broker episode where they interviewed Brendan, in part about his D&D campaign patterned as a sort of mythic NYC shaped by an esoteric version of Robert Moses, inspired directly by this book.

Potentially of interest to roleplayers, historians, and civics junkies.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-power-broker-11-brennan-lee-mulligan/

#ThePowerBroker
#99PercentInvisible
#RobertMoses
#DnD
#Dimension20
#BrennanLeeMulligan

I hopped aboard #99PercentInvisible's breakdown of #ThePowerBroker one year ago having no idea what I was getting myself into. One year later, this is the best biography I have ever read. It's a heck of a mountain to climb, but one well worth summiting

https://litcityblues.substack.com/p/the-power-broker-a-review

I finally finished reading The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro and while the book is extremely long, it paints an extremely detailed picture of Robert Moses' work in the City of New York. I read this as a part of the podcast 99% Invisible's book club, which went through all of 2024.

There are some chapters that feel like: 'here's a bunch of data'. There are other chapters that demonstrate how Moses would not help public transit, not on his watch, cars come first! One such example of that would be to run both sides of a highway far enough apart that you could run trains down the middle. Moses just wasn't interested.

And of course, there are examples of Moses pushing people out of their homes to make room for infrastructure. There are other examples where Moses is going to run a highway through some people's homes, even though there was a park one block south of there that would still work. Moses was having none of that. After all, he had the power – built up over decades.

And now that I'm done with The Power Broker, I need to read some more of the books on my shelf. I have such a backlog.

#thepowerbroker #99pi #Caro #reading #biographies #publicservice #RobertMoses

Anyone else following the 99% Invisible podcast covering #ThePowerBroker?

I’m listening to the last episode now. The whole series has been so good, it’s my fourth-most-listened-to podcast of 2024

Watching the first @notjustbikes video in a while, on Ontario's bike lanes. Wow, 9 mins of intro and it felt like most creators would've stopped there. Nice in-depth work!

It turns out, after 3 months of listening to the book, then the #99PI series about the book, I am left with just one question:

#NotJustBikes #ThePowerBroker summary series when? 😆 😇