This year, however, because PEN asked me to annotate the book, I did read it all the way through, and I was glad I did, because when I got to that final sentence, I suddenly remembered something I had long since forgotten: The moment when I thought of that sentence - and how much that moment meant to me. When, more recently, I occasionally did so, it was only to read a chapter or two to prepare myself for a lecture or an interview I was giving, certainly never to read it all the way through to the last line. For a long time after it was published (in 1974, 40 years ago), for a couple of decades probably, I never opened the book. Working on “The Power Broker” - researching it, writing it - took me seven years, and when I finished I was sure I never wanted to see it again.
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