Robert Caro

Robert Allan Caro ( born October 30, 1935 in New York City ) is an American author and journalist, best known as the author of extensive biographical works on the urban planner Robert Moses and the former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Life

After completing his studies, English language and literature at Princeton University, where he also served as managing editor of the student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, Caro took in 1957 on a professional journalist activity. He was, inter alia, six years as an investigative reporter for Newsday on Long Iceland.

1967 Caro began while working for a year at Harvard University to write his first book. The Power Broker, a description of the life and work of the influential New York urban planner Robert Moses, appeared after extensive research in 1974 and is considered a seminal work of political biography.

While maintaining the high time to investigate Caro turned his attention after also commercially successful release of his first book, the 36th U.S. president, Lyndon B. Johnson, and written to since a multi-volume biography entitled The Years of Lyndon Johnson. The first volume, The Path to Power, considers the years from 1908 to 1941 and published in 1982, while the second, in 1990, edited band Means of Ascent Johnson's Senate candidates followed. The third band in 2002 Master of the Senate was published, which deals with Johnson's Senate activities. The fourth band The Passage of Power was published in May 2012. Contrary to the original plan, thus completing the series, it includes the time of the election of John F. Kennedy as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1960, on his election with Johnson as Vice President, the Kennedy assassination which Johnson became president, and ends with the adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. development in the Vietnam War, Johnson's waiver of any other candidate, the end of the Presidency and the rest of his life are provided for a fifth band. Caro has already largely completed the research for this, so that he sets out in spite of his advanced age, even finish this. Otherwise, he has bequeathed prohibited that his work could be continued by another author.

Awards

Robert Caro has won several awards for his detailed and extensively researched books. Thus, inter alia, the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for autobiography and biography for The Power Broker, he was awarded. For Master of the Senate Caro received his second Pulitzer Prize and the 2002 National Book Award in the category Non-Fiction in 2003.

Works

• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. Alfred A. Knopf, New York City 1974, ISBN 978-0394480763.
• The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Alfred A. Knopf, New York City The Path to Power. 1982, ISBN 978-0394499734.
• Means of Ascent. 1990, ISBN 978-0394528359.
• Master of the Senate. 2002, ISBN 978-0394528366.
• The Passage of Power, 2012, ISBN 978-0679405078