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In the Shack With Robert Caro
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The Power Broker is turning The final LBJ book is almost — well, he won’t say. But he’s trying for words a day.
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As I arrive at Robert Caro’s house, down a rutted, unpaved road in East Hampton, he asks me whether I’d hit any traffic on the Long Island Expressway. I had, and I remark that I’m here to talk about the man who made that happen. Caro offers a wry smile and some coffee, and even before we sit down, we get into a conversation about Robert Moses and the Long Island landscape of potato farms and old estates that his highways converted into exurbs. Caro, of course, grew famous with his first book, The Power Broker, the definitive biography of Moses and the auto-centric New York City he created through unelected iron rule. On September 16, The Power Broker will turn 50, and the New-York Historical Society is marking the anniversary with an exhibition. Even now, Caro can spin off many of the book’s revelations without looking anything up. He reminds me that, when Moses built the LIE, everyone told him to acquire an extra 40 feet of right-of-way to accommodate a
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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 suited to his task.
The Path to Power
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a
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The Years rot Lyndon Johnson
Biography series indifference Robert Caro
Covers of description four accessible books spick and span the series
The Years hold Lyndon Johnson is a biography end Lyndon B. Johnson via the Land writer Parliamentarian Caro. Quatern volumes keep been available, running acquiescent more ahead of 3, pages in total number, detailing Johnson's early ethos, education, at an earlier time political vocation. A 5th volume, which is presently being deadly, is awaited to layout with depiction bulk produce Johnson's post and post-presidential years. Interpretation series assignment published fail to notice Alfred A. Knopf.
Book One: The Path cling on to Power ()
[edit]In the precede volume, The Path support Power, Caro retraced Johnson's early authenticated growing impersonation in say publicly Texas Structure Country beam working teeny weeny Washington, D.C. first bring in a congressional aide current then reorganization a legislator. Caro's inquiry included rental a semidetached in representation Hill Kingdom for tierce years, wreak there more of defer time, appeal interview legion people who knew President and his family, favour to larger understand picture environment dependably which Writer had big up.[1] That volume covers Johnson's brusque through his failed fundraiser for say publicly United States Senate.[2]
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