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Robert A. Caro

Дата рождения: October 30, 1935 – New York City, New York, United States

Социальные сети:

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.

Биография и Путь Автора

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
-NEH profile
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I want to cast light on political power in the twentieth century
-NEH profile
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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
-The Art of Biography No. 5
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Just remember one thing: Turn every page
-Here & Now interview
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It means shut up
-Here & Now interview
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the raw, naked reality of political power
-Fresh Air interview
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You might hear the clock ticking, but you can’t let that rush
-Fresh Air interview
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I am a very fast writer
-LIVE from NYPL: Turn Every Page
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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"

David Steinberger ((

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

Barack Obama ((

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

NPR ((

"Robert Caro is the essential chronicler of these times"

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ((

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

The New York Times ((

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

Bill Clinton ((

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

The Times ((

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