Robert caro johnson biography
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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.
Bodley’s Librarian Richard Ovenden on awarding the Bodley Medal to Robert Caro
The Power Broker
Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, The Power Broker is a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power, but the story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York in the twentieth century.
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson
One of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American president. It is the magnum opus of a writer perfectly sui
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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)
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“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).
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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 N
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Biography series bygd Robert Caro
Covers of the four published books of the series
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson bygd the American writer Robert Caro. kvartet volumes have been published, running to more than 3, pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career. A fifth volume, which is currently being written, is expected to deal with the bulk of Johnson's presidency and post-presidential years. The series fryst vatten published bygd Alfred A. Knopf.
Book One: The Path to Power ()
[edit]In the first volume, The Path to Power, Caro retraced Johnson's early life growing up in the Texas Hill Country and working in Washington, D.C. first as a congressional aide and then as a congressman. Caro's research included renting a house in the Hill Country for three years, living there much of that time, to interview numerous people who knew Johnson and his family, and to better understand the environme