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Robert Caro

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I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.


— Robert Caro


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I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.


— Robert Caro


#because #biography #democracy #examine #famous

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.


— Robert Caro


#i #know #never #old #until

I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.


— Robert Caro


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I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.


— Robert Caro


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I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.


— Robert Caro


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I trained myself to be organized.


— Robert Caro


#myself #organized #trained

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.


— Robert Caro


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I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.


— Robert Caro


#generally #hours #i #i quit #late

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.


— Robert Caro


#feel #higher #life #like #outside






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Princeton in the mid-1950s was hardly known for being hospitable toward Jews and though Caro says he did not personally suffer from anti-Semitism he saw plenty of students who did. The fourth volume The Passage of Power (2012) covers LBJ's life from 1958 to 1964. The unique premise of her intelligent and discerning book is so startling that it’s a wonder no one has thought of it before.

Robert Allan Caro (born October 30 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. For his biographies he has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography the National Book Award 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") two National Book Critics Circle Awards the H. After working for many years as a reporter Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974) a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses which was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century.

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