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   For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon

Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for

Biography, twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award for

Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and has also won virtually every

other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the

Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and

Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of

American Historians to the book that best "exemplifies the union of

the historian and the artist."

   To create his first book, The Power Broker: Robert

Moses and the Fall of New York, Caro spent seven years tracing and

talking with hundreds of men and women who worked with, for, or

against Robert Moses, including a score of his top aides.  He

examined mountains of files never open to the public. 

Everywhere acclaimed as a modern classic, The Power Broker was

chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest

non-fiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to

David Halberstam, "Surely the greatest book ever written about a

city." And The New York times Book Review said: "In the future, the

scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth

century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort."

   To research The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Caro and his

wife, Ina, moved from his native New York City to the Texas Hill

Country and then to Washington, D.C., to live in the locales in

which Johnson grew up and in which he built, while he was still

young, his first political machine.  He has spent years

examining documents at the Johnson Library in Austin and

interviewing men and women connected with Johnson's life, many of

whom had never before been interviewed. The first volume of The

Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power, was cited by The

Washington Post as "proof that we live in a great age of

biography... [a book] of radiant excellence... Caro's evocation of

the Texas Hill Country, his elaboration of Johnson's unsleeping

ambition, his understanding of how politics actually work,

are—let  it be said flat out—at the summit of American

historical writing." Professor Henry F. Graff of Columbia

University called the second volume, Means of Ascent,

"brilliant.  No review does justice to the drama of the story

Caro is telling, which is nothing less than how present-day

politics was born."  And the London Times hailed volume three,

Masters of the Senate, as "a masterpiece... Robert Caro has written

on of the truly great political biographies of the modern age."

  "Caro has a unique place among American political

biographers," according to The Boston Globe.  "He has become,

in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are

measured."  And Nicholas von Hoffman wrote: "Caro has changed

the art of political biography."

   Caro graduated from Princeton University and later

became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.  He lives in New

York City with his wife, Ina, an historian and writer

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　　The profound understanding of the uses and abuses of power

Robert Caro displayed in his 1974 biography of Robert Moses,

The Power Broker, is a

scathing achievement the author surpassed with panache in this, his

second book. Caro's dogged research and refusal to accept received

wisdom results in an eye-opening portrait that unforgettably

captures the titanic personality of Lyndon Baines Johnson

(1908-1973). Though stronger on Johnson's duplicity and naked

self-promotion than his intelligence and charm, Caro nails it all.

He chronicles the evolution of an attention-demanding youth from

the Texas hill country into a seasoned congressman who would

abandon his ardent espousal of the New Deal as soon as it ceased to

be expedient. The dirty details begin with college elections that

earn young Lyndon a reputation as a crook and a liar; Caro goes on

to unravel financial shenanigans of impressive ingenuity. Johnson's

consuming desire to get ahead and his political genius

"unencumbered by philosophy or ideology" are staggering. The White

House, Great Society, and Vietnam lie ahead when the main narrative

closes in 1941, but the roots of Johnson's future achievements and

tragic failures are laid bare. This biography may well stand as the

best book written in the second half of the 20th century about

personal ambition inextricably linked with historic change.

--Wendy Smith

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　　Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

　　"Proof that we live in a great age of biography . . . [a book] of

radiant excellence . . . Caro's evocation of the Texas Hill

Country, his elaboration of Johnson's unsleeping ambition, his

understanding of how politics actually works are---let it be said

flat out---at the summit of American historical writing."

--Washington Post

　　"A monumental political saga . . . powerful and stirring. It's an

overwhelming experience to read The Path to Power." --Christopher

Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times

　　"Not only a historical but a literary event. An epic biography .

. . A sweeping, richly detailed portrait . . . vivid [with] Caro's

astonishing concern for the humanity of his characters. An awesome

achievement." --Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek

　　"Stands at the pinnacle of the biographical art." --Donald R.

Morris, Houston Post

　　"The major biography of recent years. Brilliant . . . Magisterial

. . . Caro has given us an American life of compelling fascination.

A benchmark beside which other biographies will be measured for

some time to come." --Alden Whitman, Los Angeles Herald

Examiner

　　"An ineradicable likeness of an American giant. Caro has brought

to life a young man so believable and unforgettable that we can

hear his heartbeat and touch him." --Henry F. Graff, Professor of

History, Columbia University

　　" Epic. A brief review cannot convey the depth, range and detail

of this fascinating story. Caro is a meticulous historian. A

monument of interpretive biography." --Michael R. Beschloss,

Chicago Sun-Times Book Week

　　"Splendid and moving. At this rate Caro's work will eventually

acquire Gibbon-like dimensions, and Gibbon-like passion. . . . Caro

is a phenomenon . . . an artful writer, with a remarkable power to

evoke and characterize politicians, landscapes, relationships. This

massive book is almost continually exciting." --Richard Eder, Los

Angeles Times

　　"By every measure---depth of research, brilliance of conception,

the seamless flow of the prose---it is a masterpiece of biography."

--Dan Cryer, Newsday

　　"Extraordinary. A powerful, absorbing, at times awe-inspiring,

and often deeply alarming story. A vivid picture of the emergence

of one of this century's authentically great politicians." --Alan

Brinkley, Boston Sunday Globe

　　"The book races at Johnson's own whirlwind pace. A tour de force

that blends relentless detective work, polemical vigor and artful

storytelling into the most compelling narrative of American

political life since All the King's Men." --Henry Mayer, San

Francisco Chronicle

　　"A landmark in American political biography. The definitive life

of LBJ. Caro has written a Johnson biography that is richer and

fuller and may well be one of the freshest and most revealing

studies ever written about a major historical figure." --Steve

Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

　　"A masterful narrative on a grand scale, a fascinating portrait

of LBJ's activities set against a fully drawn canvas of life in the

Texas hill country. By far the most significant Johnson book to

appear." --Library Journal

　　"No mere political biography. Caro is on the way to becoming our

finest fine-tooth-comb historian." --Jack Goodman, Salt Lake

Tribune

　　"Magnificent. For understanding our recent past and the men and

policies that brought the country to its present condition and

aimed us toward whatever our future is to be, it's an immensely

important work." --Bryan Woolley, Dallas Times Herald

　　"This is a watershed book. Caro writes with sweek and passion.

From the first sentence I was hooked. All other biographies of

Johnson pale in comparison." -- Joseph P. Lash

　　"Engrossing and revealing. This fascinating, immensely long and

highly readable book is the fullest account we have--and are ever

likely to have--of the early years of LBJ." --David Herbert Donald,

front page, NY Times Book Review

　　"A superb and unique biography...Meticulous in research, grand in

scale, this is a major work that will remain a tower of its

kind."-- Barbara Tuchman

　　-- Review