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  1. Robert A. Caro _ Working

    I'VE BEEN ENCOUNTERING questions of race, of segregation-of America's great crime-all my professional life.
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  2. Robert A. Caro _ Working

    Raising the subject of East Tremont with Commissioner Moses, I asked him the most innocuous question I could think of: Wasn't it more difficult to build an expressway in the city rather than a parkway in the country? He waved his hand dismissively: "Oh, no, no, no," he said. "There are more people in the way-that's all. There's very little real hardship in the thing. There's a little discomfort, and even that is greatly exaggerated.
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  3. Robert A. Caro _ Working

    fork and embarrassing him. And there was another dinner in Paris. Johnson decided, at the last minute, not to go. And Busby, who did go, recalled that a member of the French Senate came up to him and asked where Johnson was, and Busby answered, He couldn't come tonight. And the French senator said, Oh I was so looking
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  4. Robert A. Caro _ Working

    After a while, the writers of the Allen Room invited me to lunch, which we thereafter ate almost every day in the employees' cafeteria in the library basement. These writers included not just some who were already famous, but some who were, at the time, little better known than I was, like John Demaray, Lucy Komisar, Irene Mahoney and Susan Brownmiller, who was working on Against Our Will and would sit at the desk adjoining mine for the next two years, her petite feet, clad in brightly striped socks, sticking under the partition that divided our desks, giving me an odd feeling of companionship.
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  5. Robert A. Caro _ Working

    But when I began researching Robert Moses' expressway-building, and kept reading, in textbook after textbook, some version of the phrase "the human cost of highways" with never a detailed examination of what the "human cost" truly consisted of or of how it stacked up against the benefits of highways, I found myself simply unable to go forward to the next chapter. I felt I just had to try to show-to make readers not only see but understand and feel-what "human cost" meant.
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