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Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson.
Jun 15, 2023 · NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Caro’s fifth volume on Lyndon Johnson, one of the book world’s most long-awaited publications, is unlikely to be delayed by the death of his longtime editor, publishing luminary Robert Gottlieb.
The official website of historian and biographer Robert A. Caro, author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson books.
Sep 24, 2024 · Sept. 24, 2024. Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. On a sunny morning this month, I met the writer...
For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor.
Sep 12, 2024 · When Robert Caro was writing “The Power Broker,” his 1974 biography of the urban planner Robert Moses, he often heard a deflating refrain.
Robert Caro is simply one of the greatest American historians. He has used libraries and archives extensively to paint the most vividly illuminating portrait of American politics and society in the 20th century through his biographies on Robert Moses and Lyndon B Johnson.
Sep 23, 2024 · Robert Caro (born October 30, 1935, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American historian and author whose extensive biographies of Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert Moses went beyond studies of the men who were their subjects to investigate the practice of political power in the United States.
Sep 29, 2024 · Robert Caro's "The Power Broker" was published 50 years ago this month. We meet the author, and learn why he delves so deep in his research.
Mar 6, 2020 · We're listening to my interview recorded last April with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro about writing his groundbreaking biographies of New York power broker Robert Moses and...
For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and ...
Robert Caro introduces the story with a dramatic account of the Senate itself: how Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun had made it the center of governmental energy, the forum in which the great issues of the country were thrashed out.
Dec 20, 2022 · The good news on Robert Caro’s very long-awaited next book is that he knows the final words. The bad news is that he’s known them for years and remains far from concluding his Lyndon Johnson series, for which he has published four volumes over a period of 40 years.
Sep 30, 2024 · Talking to historian and author Robert Caro is like stepping into a time machine, as NPR discovered on a visit to his New York office recently.
Apr 15, 2019 · Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Robert Caro has spent decades researching and chronicling the lives of notable men. His biographies have focused on former President Lyndon B. Johnson...
Apr 1, 2019 · Robert A. Caro on the means and ends of power. By David Marchese Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya. As far as titles go, Robert A. Caro’s “Working” is both humbly straightforward and almost...
Sep 16, 2014 · In the spring of 1974, after Robert A. Caro had finished writing The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York —a seven-year ordeal that took the book through three publishers and...
THE PATH TO POWER | Robert Caro. THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON I. The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart.
Apr 8, 2019 · Robert Caro is one of the nation’s preeminent biographers, known for meticulous research and taking his time with a subject. Indeed, he began his massive series "The...
Oct 22, 2021 · Why Robert Caro Now Has Only Ten Typewriters. The biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson visits his archive, which, after getting the Marie Kondo treatment, is on exhibit at the New-York...
NEW YORK (AP) — Since the release a year ago of the acclaimed documentary “Turn Every Page,” Robert Caro has been feeling a bit like a movie star. “I walk up Broadway and kids recognize me,” the historian and author of “The Power Broker” says. “If I linger a bit, they start talking about a chapter that they like. It’s so wonderful.”
Feb 20, 2023 · Robert Caro has made much of his life's work chronicling the career and life of Lyndon Johnson. On this President's Day, we'll listen back to two interviews I've recorded with Caro. He's...
Robert Caro, The Art of Biography No. 5. Interviewed by James Santel. Issue 216, Spring 2016. Since 1976, Robert Caro has devoted himself to The Years of Lyndon Johnson, a landmark study of the thirty-sixth president of the United States.
Sep 30, 2024 · It marks a major milestone, the 50th anniversary of Caro's first book, "The Power Broker." The book tells the story of how urban planner Robert Moses reshaped New York through the roads and bridges he built and the lives and communities he destroyed.
Sep 30, 2024 · Like generations of New Yorkers, journalists and historians across America, I came to understand my city through Robert Caro’s magisterial biography of the master builder who dominated the...
