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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. A fifth volume is expected to deal with the bulk of Johnson's presidency and post
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]
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 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 ...
"Robert A. Caro, Private Eye". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Lambert, Richard (April 9, 2019). "Working by Robert Caro — how to get to the root of political power". Financial Times. Marchese, David (April 1, 2019). "Robert A. Caro on the Means and Ends of Power". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. McGrath, Dennis J. (April 12, 2019).
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.
All the Way is a play by Robert Schenkkan, depicting President Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts to maneuver members of the 88th United States Congress to enact, and civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King Jr. to support, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The play takes its name from Johnson's 1964 campaign slogan, "All the Way with LBJ." [1]
Caro was born Ina Joan Sloshberg. [1] She married Robert Caro in 1957, while she was a student at Connecticut College. [1] She graduated from the Columbia University School of General Studies in 1962.