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Robert A. Caro

Nacido: October 30, 1935 – New York City, New York, United States

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Robert A. Caro is an American biographer and journalist whose work examines political power, public institutions, and urban development. He is best known for The Power Broker and the multivolume The Years of Lyndon Johnson. His deeply reported books have earned two Pulitzer Prizes and multiple National Book Awards.

Biografía y Trayectoria del Autor

Robert A. Caro grew up in New York City and came to authorship through reporting rather than through an early literary platform. After graduating from Princeton University, later becoming a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and spending six years as an investigative reporter for Newsday, he developed the habits that would define his career: deep reporting, patience, and a refusal to accept surface explanations. One crucial turning point came when an editor told him to “turn every page,” advice Caro later treated as a professional creed. Another came when he realized that biography could explain not only a person but an entire machinery of power. That insight moved him from newspaper work into long-form nonfiction and set the direction of his life’s work. ((https://www.robertcaro.org/about))

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I’m not really interested in writing biographies
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I want to cast light on political power in the twentieth century
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Rhythm matters. Mood matters. Sense of place matters
-The Art of Biography No. 5
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The facts alone aren’t enough
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Just remember one thing: Turn every page
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It means shut up
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the raw, naked reality of political power
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You might hear the clock ticking, but you can’t let that rush
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I am a very fast writer
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You can’t rush that
-LIVE from NYPL: Turn Every Page

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"Robert Caro stands alone as the unquestioned master of the contemporary American political biography"

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"Robert Caro has long been one of our most treasured biographers"

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"I think about Robert Caro and reading The Power Broker back when I was 22 years old and just being mesmerized"

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"Robert Caro has forever changed the way we think about, and read, American history"

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"It showcases Mr. Caro's masterly gifts as a writer"

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"Robert Caro has once again done America a great service"

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"Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age"

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