While writing The Power Broker, Robert Caro witnessed Robert Moses losing power and came to understand how fair that loss would be.

“No, and I watch... Oh, that's a great question. And I watched that happen, and I'm a young, I'm, whatever I was young. And, uh, whether, what- whatever my age was, I didn't really know what I was doing.”

“And I watched him lose power, and I learned enough about him to know how fair this was going to be.”