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"All of humanity seemed so pathetically poor compared with the tenderness and love that he now felt, compared with the new softness and gratitude shown by Natasha as she had turned at the last moment and glanced at him through her tears."

Taking a break before the second half but god damn. What a tremendous work.

I can see why this is often considered the best biography (and a contender for one of the best books period) ever written. The depth of research is staggering and I'm only a quarter through. Caro dedicated his entire professional life to writing about just TWO MEN. He turned over every stone, rifled through every dusty old filing cabinet, and he single-handedly turned around (and immortalised) Robert Moses' legacy

Rats in the Walls

I left my copy on a fuckin train