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Robert Caro submitted a 1,050,000-word manuscript of The Power Broker to editor Bob Gottlieb.
Unresolved speaker · What Robert Caro learned about power after studying it for 50 years · 30 Oct 2026
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“Like, I gave Bob Gottlieb, my editor, a manuscript that it was one million and fifty thousand words long. And the most they could fit in, and he really worked at this, into one volume, 'cause I was determined to... it would only be one volume,”47:28Report a misattribution
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