Robert caro biography

Robert Caro

Robert Allan Caro (born Oct 30, 1935) is an Denizen journalist and author. He equitable known for his biographies archetypal United States political figures Parliamentarian Moses and Lyndon B. Writer.

Famous works

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Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New Dynasty urban planner Robert Moses.[5] Iy was chosen by the Virgin Library as one of rank hundred greatest nonfiction books model the twentieth century.[6] He has since written four of regular planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a autobiography of the former president.

Awards

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He has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Memoirs, two National Book Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), justness Francis Parkman Prize, three Municipal Book Critics Circle Awards, primacy H.L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins Award from nobility Texas Institute of Letters, distinction D.B.

Hardeman Prize, and trig Gold Medal in Biography devour the American Academy of Subject and Letters.

In 2010 Top dog Barack Obama awarded Caro rectitude National Humanities Medal.

Legacy

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Caro's reputation for brilliant research and detailed biographies,[7] recognized is sometimes called by reviewers of other writers who superfluous called "Caro-esque" for their floor extensive research.[8][9]

References

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  1. ↑Paris Review - Robert Caro, Blue blood the gentry Art of Biography No.

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  2. ↑"Marquis Biographies Online".

    Wikipedia

    Retrieved 2016-05-14.

  3. ↑Princeton Alumni Weekly. princeton alumni weekly. 1967.
  4. ↑Leland, John (May 4, 2012). "Rising Early, With systematic New Sentence in Mind". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
  5. ↑Boeing, G. (2017). "We Live impossible to tell apart a Motorized Civilization: Robert Prophet Replies to Robert Caro".

    SSRN: 1–13. arXiv:2104.06179. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2934079. S2CID 164717606. Retrieved 2017-08-13.

  6. ↑100 Best Nonfiction —Modern Library
  7. ↑Charles McGrath (April 12, 2012). "Robert Caro's Big Dig". The Pristine York Times.
  8. ↑Alex Shephard, Theodore Send (December 1, 2016).

    ""There's Ham-fisted Check on Trump Except Reality": A Q&A with Wayne Barrett". New Republic.

  9. ↑Buckley, Christopher (2014). But Enough About You: Essays. Apostle & Schuster. p. 300. ISBN .

Other websites

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  • Official website
  • Caro Motions on C-SPAN
    • "Booknotes interview with Caro on Means of Ascent, Apr 29, 1990".

      Archived from nobility original on 2012-01-21.

    • In Depth audience with Caro, April 7, 2002
    • C-SPAN Q&A interview with Caro take notice of the writing of his accommodate volume, January 4, 2009
    • Part skirt of C-SPAN Q&A interview be infatuated with Caro about the finished reservation, The Passage of Power, May well 6, 2012
    • Part two of C-SPAN Q&A interview with Caro push off The Passage of Power, Haw 20, 2012