The Power Broker
The Power Broker by Robert Caro is one of 2026's most credible books, appearing on 1 of the year's most respected lists, including McKinsey & Company, for a Consensus Score of 15 out of 100.
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Our take
AI-draftedFifty-plus years on, Caro's biography of Robert Moses has moved from contested reception to something closer to a genre-defining text — the standard against which critics measure every subsequent account of how American cities actually get built and unbuilt. What keeps drawing new readers back isn't just the scale of the reporting but Caro's insistence that Moses's genius for building infrastructure and his contempt for the communities it displaced were the same trait.
In the press
“A consensus Great American Biography, a landmark in our journalism but also a classic of our literature”
The New York Times“the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort”
The New York Times
How the Consensus Score is calculated
Our Consensus Score is our own transparent editorial metric — not a user rating. It weighs each list by the credibility of its source, how recent the listing is, and any award status. Here is the full breakdown.
| Source | Authority | Recency | Award | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKinsey & Company | 0.80 | 0.85 | 1.00× | 0.68 |
| Weighted sum → Score | 0.68 → 15 | |||
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Frequently asked
What lists is The Power Broker on?
The Power Broker appears on 1 list in our 2026 corpus, including McKinsey & Company.
What is its Consensus Score?
The Power Broker has a Consensus Score of 15 out of 100, our transparent editorial measure of how many credible lists agree on it.