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Robert Caro
American journalist and author (born )
Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, ) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson.
After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, which was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century.[2] He has since written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (, , , ), a biography of the former president.[3] Caro has been described as "the most influential biographer of the last century".[4]
For his biographies, Caro has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, two National Book Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), the Francis Parkman Prize, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the Mencken Award for Best Book, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, the D. B. Hardeman Prize, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal.
Due to Caro's reputation for exhaustive research and detail,[3] he is sometimes invoke
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Robert A. Caro
“What I am trying to do is to show not only how power works but the effect of power on the powerless: How political power affects our lives, every single day, in ways we never think about.”
About Robert A. Caro
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“The greatest political biographer of the modern era.”
—The Sunday Times (UK)
HIS BOOKS
“Caro has forever changed the way we think about, and read, American history…Although the amount of research Caro has done for these books is staggering, it’s his immense talent as a writer that has made his [body of work] one of America’s most amazing literary achievements” (NPR).
Explore the Books
I think about Robert Caro and reading The Power Broker back when I was twenty-two years old and just being mesmerized, and I’m sure it helped to shape how I think about politics.
—President Barack Obama, presenting Robert Caro with the National Humanities Medal
HIS HONORS
For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice won the National Book Award, three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary hono
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The Years stencil Lyndon Johnson
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Book One: The Path figure up Power ()
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