Robert Caro insisted that The Power Broker be published as one volume; fitting it into one volume required cutting its manuscript from 1,050,000 to about 700,000 words, a reduction of 350,000 words.

“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,”

“was seven hundred pages or be- uh, about, uh, about seven hundred thousand words instead of a million fifty thousand words, which meant we had to cut three hundred and fifty thousand words.”