#robertcaro

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10.21.20 Lunchtime drawing: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, the ubiquitous-on-Zoom-bookshelf backgrounds book of the pandemic. It’s also part of my NYC book collection in my studio that I periodically reference for the text that accompany drawings.

[r5298]

Finished reading! I learned about Robert Caro after listening to Conan’s podcast. I bought Master of the Senate as it sits on my bookshelf. And continues to do so. Unopened. And now I want to read The Power Broker.

Really good tips on writing and how to get the story told.

[davecullen]

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Lots o fun at #authorsnight in the #Hamptons yesterday. . That’s #Robertcaro, who sat right behind me (it was alphabetical). I kept meaning to chat, but he had a constant stream of eager readers to meet. . It was definitely interesting to see who my audience is. Lots of lookers, but the adults shied away. 100% of my buyers were either kids or (mostly) parents buying a copy for their kids. (Plus a few teachers buying for their kids.) “#Parkland: Birth of a Movement.” #bookfestival (at Amagansett, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1B4Aw3B3Mf/?igshid=1e76ktotjurhz

[patioweather]

Robert Caro

wikipedia “Robert Caro“

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. He has since written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a biography of the former president.

For his biographies, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, two National Book Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), 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"), three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the H.L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, the D.B. Hardeman Prize, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal.

Due to Caro's reputation for exhaustive research and detail, he is sometimes invoked by reviewers of other writers who are called "Caro-esque" for their own extensive research.

Books Caro, Robert A., The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. 1974. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York. (ISBN 0394480767). ix + 1246 pp. + xxxiv pp.: illus.

Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power. 1982. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York. (ISBN 0394499735). xxiii + 882 p. + 48 p. of plates: illus.

Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent. 1990. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York. (ISBN 0394528352). xxxiv + 506 pp.

Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate. 2002. Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York. (ISBN 0-394-52836-0). xxiv + 1167 pp.

Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power. 2012. Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York. (ISBN 978-0-679-40507-8). 752 pp.

Zinsser, William Knowlton (ed.), Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography. 2016. Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-395-48617-3

Caro, Robert A., Working. April, 2019. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York. (ISBN 9780525656357). 240 pp.

[thisismrbrendanjay]

#beachreads #robertcaro (at Long Beach Boardwalk) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz6D4C7FmoT/?igshid=1k7s7w6forbss

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Quote by Robert Caro

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet. —Robert Caro

[christinadennison]

Welp, today is the 30th day and this is the book that slayed my plan. I made a valiant effort, but I'm still nearly 200 pages away from finishing it. And I'm ripping mad that so many of the traffic, transit, and housing issues in New York are a result of one man's megalomania. . . . . #30booksin30days #powerbroker #robertcaro #robertmoses #NYC https://www.instagram.com/p/BoX3-XwBFYH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7appvlep5qwv

[pmok]

Finally picked up these bad boys having wanted them for 5 years after reading The Power Broker. #robertcaro #thepathtopower #meansofascent #masterofthesenate #thepassageofpower (at Harrison Station)