2012
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3 days ago · When Mr. Gottlieb, who died last June at 92, wasn’t heartlessly lancing thousands of words out of Robert Caro’s biographical volumes or marking up the manuscripts of Toni Morrison and Salman ...
3 days ago · Robert Caro wrote that LBJ “not only had held the country steady during a difficult time but had set it on a new course, a course toward social justice.” ...
2 days ago · The volume of Robert Caro’s LBJ biography that traces Johnson’s years as John F. Kennedy’s No. 2 boils down his powerlessness into the unforgettable, indelible image of him sitting in forced ...
1 day ago · Robert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power, political genius and the shaping of 20th-century America. This first instalment tells of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country, revealing in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman ...
Aug 18, 2020 · Robert Caro on the Making of “The Power Broker”. The legendary historian and biographer explains how, from a background in daily journalism, he came to write one of the most revered nonfiction...
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3 days ago · Robert Caro on the Making of “The Power Broker” The legendary historian and biographer explains how, from a background in daily journalism, he came to write one of the most revered nonfiction books of the twentieth century.
3 days ago · Robert Caro has cited it as the strongest influence on The Power Broker, his Pulitzer-winning biography of Robert Moses, although Caro does not mention Jacobs by name in the book despite Jacobs's battles with Moses over his proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway. Caro reportedly cut a chapter about Jacobs due to his book's length.
