| Robert
Moses On LBJ
Stolen
Election at
NYPL Which
Closed Branch
by UN, Needing
Study
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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NYC, Dec 12 –
Historian
Robert Caro is
working on his
fifth and
final volume
about Lyndon
Johnson,
following his
seminal book
about Robert
Moss, The
Power Broker.
On
December 12,
he spoke at
the New York
Public Library
in advance of
December 30
release of a
documentary,
Turn Every
Page—The
Adventures of
Robert Caro
and Robert
Gottlieb.
In
answering
questions,
Caro repeated
a number of
stories from
his book
Working, about
his and Ina's
apartment in
The Bronx (on
December 12,
he said he'd
hated it), and
tracking down
the man who
stole an early
election for
LBJ.
New
material
involved how
Knopf binds
his books, and
Gottlieb's
love-hate
relationship
with the
semi-colon.
One
wondered if a
Caro-like book
could or
should be
written about
a lesser but
sleazier
figure:
Antonio
Guterres, UN
Secretary
General. Just
as
controlling,
to the point
of having
critical Press
roughed up and
banned from
the UN -- but
with few to no
accomplishments
at SG.
But
a study would
illuminate the
decay of
international
relations, at
least of the
UN. And maybe
in DC, too,
where Guterres
will be on
December 13,
meeting with
three
Senators.
We'll have
more on
that.
In
the interim,
one related
thanks to but
critique of
the NY Public
Library. In
the months
after Guterres
had Inner City
Press thrown
out of the UN,
and before it
came to cover
the SDNY
courthouse, it
worked out of
the second
floor of the
NYPL's Grand
Central branch
on 46th Street
between
Lexington and
Third Avenues.
It
was great. And
now it is gone
--
NYPL has
closed the
branch, after
not re-opening
the second
floor after
the COVID shut
down. Many
people used
that branch,
and the
reasoning for
closing it was
not made
public or
subject to
public input.
Still more
democratic
than Guterres'
UN. Turn Every
Page!
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