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Robert Caro

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I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.


— Robert Caro


#country #creating #first #had #hill

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.


— Robert Caro


#chapter #coming #earlier #end #excited

If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.


— Robert Caro


#bad #bed #been #coming #day

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.


— Robert Caro


#day #every #every day #example #how

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.


— Robert Caro


#leader #lyndon #lyndon johnson #made #majority

Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don't take days off as long as I'm working on something that's supposed to be all in the same mood.


— Robert Caro


#days #exception #football #i #long

My predictions are notably inaccurate.


— Robert Caro


#notably #predictions

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.


— Robert Caro


#fast #i #i write #nobody #very

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.


— Robert Caro


#anything #being #comes #democracy #elected

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.


— Robert Caro


#come #genius #make #political #senate






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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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