Young Moses already showed the obsessive, self-isolating dedication that marked his later career

Evidence

At night, when the other students on his floor began to roughhouse, Moses would quietly close his door. Alone in his room, he would write poems—dreamy-eyed romances and imitations of Walter Pater and Swinburne. And he would read. When he found a subject that interested him, he would clear the library shelves of books on the subject, lug them back to his room, stack them on his desk and read through the stack until it was finished. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 166

Categorization

• XREF: Foreshadows the central thesis of The Power Broker itself — Moses’s isolation, single-mindedness, and dismissal of those outside his focus. Connects to Caro’s later chapters on Moses ignoring public opposition. — connects to: Youth and Jewishness made Moses a lonely social outcast at Yale — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 165; Moses’s self-imposed scholarly isolation paradoxically won him his classmates’ admiration — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 167

Broader Connections

• Moses’s self-imposed scholarly isolation paradoxically won him his classmates’ admiration #expands (0.80) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 167