![]() ![]() ![]() Neither Caro nor Knopf has said why not, but the best guess is that it’s about money. You can buy Caro’s LBJ books and his excellent brief memoir in official digital form, but not the Robert Moses book. For years, readers have been asking for an e-book, principally for its weightlessness. New York has craftily advised people to slice up the paperback to avoid lugging a three-and-a-half-pound tome around for weeks’ worth of subway reading. ![]() It is a status symbol on Room Rater, and it requires a significant time commitment. The definitive Robert Moses biography - indispensable reading for anyone who cares about cities or politics - is 1,280 pages long, in hard- or softcover. Caro’s second-biggest project after the four (and, soon, five) volumes of “The Years of Lyndon Johnson,” is a very large book. ![]()
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