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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. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, which was chosen by the Modern Library as ...
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro.Four volumes have been published, running to more than 3,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career.
The pair, both in their late 80s, had worked together for five decades, starting with Caro's biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, and continuing through Caro's first four volumes about Lyndon B. Johnson. Its story is focused on the interplay between writer and editor as they work to finish the fifth book rather than a history of their ...
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a 1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro.The book focuses on the creation and use of power in New York local and state politics, as witnessed through Moses's use of unelected positions to design and implement dozens of highways and bridges, sometimes at great cost to the communities he nominally served.
Cover of Master of the Senate. Master of the Senate is a book that deals with the Senatorial career of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro.. In Master of the Senate, Caro chronicles Johnson's rapid ascent in the United States Congress, particularly focusing on his tenure from 1949 to 1960 as Senate majority leader with the aim to show "how legislative power works in America". [1]
"In 'Working,' Robert A. Caro Gives Us a Brief Look at the Process of Writing His Epic Books". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Thomas, Evan (May 17, 2019). "Biographer Robert Caro on his own life's work". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Vick, Karl (April 4, 2019). "Biographer Robert Caro Pauses as He Prepares His Final Lyndon B. Johnson ...
The Path to Power, the first volume of Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Path to Power .
The backing of the Southern Caucus was seen as crucial to Lyndon Johnson's early rise, [1] [4] although he did distance himself somewhat from the Caucus as Senate Majority Leader by not signing the Southern Manifesto, although his biographer Robert Caro argues that this was with the active connivance of the Caucus and Russell who wanted to ...