Ambition was not the whole motive driving young Moses

Evidence

But if there was ambition, that was only a part of what was driving Bob Moses. And the whisperers never saw the other part. For they never saw what Moses did in the late afternoons after he grabbed the taxicabs. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 274

Categorization

• QUESTION: Caro is building suspense by withholding what Moses actually did — a deliberate narrative technique. Worth noting as craft but the payoff comes in the next passages.
• XREF: connects to: The young Moses already refused to accept rejection from authority figures — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 183; Even in college Moses deliberately selected rather than accepted his friends — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 194; Moses needed to display superiority more than he wanted power. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 1858 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Moses needed to display superiority more than he wanted power. #corroborates (0.75) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 1858