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The 1975 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography
For a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author published during the year, preferably on an American subject, One thousand dollars ($1,000).

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert Caro (Knopf)

Winning Work

By

Portions of The Power Broker excerpted as "Annals of Politics" features in The New Yorker are available below.

"The Power Broker—The Best Bill-Drafter in Albany" (July 22, 1974)

"The Power Broker II—If the End Doesn't Justify the Means, What Does?" (July 29, 1974)

"The Power Broker III—How Things Get Done" (August 12, 1974)

"The Power Broker IV—Point of No Return" (August 19, 1974)

Although he has worked continuously on a projected five-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson for the past forty years (including Master of the Senate, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Biography), Caro continues to survey the legacy of New York's erstwhile "master builder," as evinced by this 2014 talk with the Randall's Island Park Alliance.

The Jury

Leonard W. Levy(Chair)*

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities, Claremont University Center

George Dangerfield*

Author

Guy Davenport

Professor of English, University of Kentucky

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