Caro began writing about Johnson in the mid-1970s and over the decades has built a large and obsessive following, somehow keeping readers in suspense as if he were writing installments for a novel.

The Path to Power tells the story of how a big-talking, manipulative, desperately ambitious young man with father issues claws his way to the seat of power in Washington. It is unputdownable.

I am 532 pages into Robert A. Caro's The Passage Of Power, the fourth installment of what was originally meant to be a three-volume biography of Lyndon B.

Caro’s original manuscript was around 1 million words, and some 300,000 had to be removed by Caro and editor Robert Gottlieb just so the book wouldn’t require an extra edition.

They do agree on their happiness with the documentary releasing Dec. 30 and their regard for Lizzie Gottlieb, who thought of the film after seeing Caro present her father with an award in 2014. Lizzie ...

Robert Caro poses for a portrait on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Robert A. Caro stands between two giant columns in a second-floor ...

Caro and Gottlieb first met in the early 1970s, when Caro was struggling to find a publisher for his first book: “The Power Broker,” a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses.

A New Yorker for much his life, Caro is the Society's unofficial laureate, subject of one exhibit — “Turn Every Page” — about his famously thorough research and a new one dedicated to “The Power ...

50 years after ‘The Power Broker,’ Robert Caro’s dreams are still coming true By: Hillel Italie, The Associated Press Posted: 8:19 AM CDT Friday, Sep. 20, 2024 Last Modified: 8:23 PM CDT ...