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When the federal court's deadline to remove the monument from the lobby ran out in August, Moore's fellow state supreme court justices had no choice but to suspend him. To the fury of thousands of protesters, the monument was heaved into storage and Moore ordered to stand trial...
After receiving what he termed “the world’s smallest advance,” Caro spent seven years researching his first book. The Power Broker traces the career of Robert Moses, who shaped the state and city of New York for almost half a century.
What attracted Caro to Moses was “this political power that had affected so many people.” He realized that even in a democracy “power doesn’t always come from the ballot box.”
Caro’s first work, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, won him the 1975 Pulitzer.
In "Al-Qaeda's New Home" [After 9/11: The Iraq Mess, Sept. 15], you described how bin Laden's network is rallying new recruits to battle U.S. forces in Iraq. It seems likely that the same political situation that made it possible for the Taliban to take control in Afghanistan...