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  "In the twentieth century, the influence of Robert Moses on the cities of America was greater than that of any other person": First Edition of The Power Broker; Inscribed By Robert A. Caro to the screenwriter of Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader

  CARO, Robert A. [Paul Schrader].

  The Power Broker.

  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

  First edition of Caro's Pulitzer-Prize winning work on Robert Moses. Thick octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with numerous photographs and maps, top stain red. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Paul Schrader - with best wishes Robert A Caro." The recipient, Paul Schrader, is a screenwriter, director, and critic, has built a body of work defined by his preoccupation with moral crisis, alienation, and the psychological burdens of modernity. Drawing from his Calvinist upbringing and influenced by existential and transcendental philosophy, Schrader’s cinema often examines individuals estranged from society yet driven by an austere inner logic—figures such as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976), Julian Kaye in American Gigolo (1980), and Reverend Ernst Toller in First Reformed (2017). These characters, shaped by guilt, repression, and obsession, embody Schrader’s recurring interest in the intersection of faith, violence, and the search for redemption. His stylistic restraint and focus on interior states reveal a fascination with the cost of moral conviction in a secular world, where the pursuit of order and purity often collapses into self-destruction. This fascination with the nature and consequences of contro...

  Price: $7,500.00     Item Number: 149431

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