Robert Caro
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Robert Allan Caro is an American journalist
and author
known for his celebrated biographies
of United States
political figures Robert Moses
and Lyndon B. Johnson
. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker
(1974), a biography of New York
urban planner Robert Moses, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He then wrote The Years of Lyndon Johnson
(1982, 1990, 2002), a planned four-volume biography of the former president. 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 Historian to the book that "best exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist") two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the H.L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, and an Award in Literature and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
, where he was known for translating an edition of his school newspaper into Russian and mailing 10,000 copies to schoolboys in the USSR. In 1957, he received a degree in English from Princeton University
. While at Princeton, he was managing editor
of The Daily Princetonian
. He was a Carnegie Fellow at Columbia University and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He began his professional career as a reporter with the New Brunswick Daily Home News (now merged into the Home News Tribune
) in New Jersey. He also spent six years as an investigative reporter with the Long Island
, New York newspaper Newsday
. In October 2007, Caro was named a "Holtzbrinck Distinguished Visitor" at the American Academy in Berlin
, Germany but then was unable to attend. On February 25, 2010 President Obama awarded Caro the nation's highest award in the Humanities, The National Humanities Medal. Delivering remarks at the end of the ceremony the President said, "I think about Robert Caro and reading The Power Broker
back when I was 22 years old and just being mesmerized, and I'm sure it helped to shape how I think about politics." On April 10, 2010, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
, Caro began work on his first book, The Power Broker, which is both a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses and a study of Caro's favorite theme, the acquisition and use of power. Not finished until 1974, the work was based on extensive research and 522 interviews, including seven interviews with Moses himself, several with Michael Madigan (who worked for Moses for thirty-five years); and numerous interviews with Sidney Shapiro (Moses's General Manager for forty years); as well as interviews with men who worked for and knew Moses’s mentor, New York Governor Al Smith
. His wife Ina Caro functioned as his research assistant. In fact, her master's thesis on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
stemmed from this work. The Power Broker was a critical success, winning the Pulitzer Prize in Biography
and 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," and was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century.
The Power Broker is widely viewed as a seminal work because it combined painstaking historical research with a smoothly flowing narrative writing style. The success of this approach was evident in his chapter on the construction of the Cross-Bronx Expressway
, where Caro reported the controversy from all perspectives, including that of neighborhood residents. The result was a work of powerful literary as well as academic interest.
Texas
and Washington, D.C.
, in order to better understand Johnson's upbringing and to interview anyone who had known Johnson. The work, entitled The Years of Lyndon Johnson, is projected to run to five volumes. The first, The Path to Power (1982) covers Johnson's life up to his failed 1941 campaign for the United States Senate
. It won a National Book Critics Circle Award
, 1983, a Washington Monthly Best Political Book Award, 1983, and an H.L. Mencken Award. The second volume, Means of Ascent (1990), commences in the aftermath of that defeat and continues through his election to that office in 1948. This volume won a National Book Critics Circle Award
, 1990, and Washington Monthly Best Political Book Award, 1990. The third and most recent published volume, Master of the Senate (2002) chronicles Johnson's rapid ascent and rule as Senate Majority Leader; it garnered Caro a second Pulitzer Prize
in Biography as well as a National Book Award
, a Carl Sandburg Award, a John Steinbeck Award and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Times of London wrote "Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age."
In November 2011, it was announced that the fourth volume, tentatively titled The Passage of Power, would be released in May 2012, covering LBJ's life from 1958 to 1964, and that the full project had expanded to five volumes, with the fifth volume requiring another two to three years to write.
Caro's books portray Johnson alternatively as a scheming opportunist and visionary progressive. Caro argued, for example, that Johnson's victory in the 1948 runoff for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate
was only achieved through extensive fraud and ballot box stuffing. Caro also highlighted some of Johnson's campaign contributions, such as those from the Texas construction firm Brown and Root
; in 1962 the company was acquired by another Texas firm, Halliburton
, which became a major contractor in the Vietnam War
. In addition, Caro argued that Johnson was awarded the Silver Star
in World War II
mainly for political reasons, and that he later lied to journalists and the public about the circumstances for which it was awarded. Caro's portrayal of Johnson also notes his struggles on behalf of progressive causes such as the Voting Rights Act.
2010—the National Humanities Medal.
2010—Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
2003—The Pulitzer Prize for Biography (Master of the Senate).
2003—The John Steinbeck Award in literature (Master of the Senate).
2003—The Carl Sandberg Award in Literature (Master of the Senate).
2003—The Los Angeles Times Book award in Non-Fiction (Master of the Senate).
2002— The National Book Award (Master of the Senate).
2002 - The Power Broker was chosen by the Modern Library as one of
the hundred greatest non-fiction books of the twentieth century.
1990—The National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year (Means of Ascent).
1991—Washington Monthly American Political Book Award (Means of Ascent).
1986—The Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
1983 – The Mencken Award for the best book of 1982 (The Path to Power).
1983 – The Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters (The Path to Power).
1983 – American Academy of Arts and Letters Award.
1983 – The Blue Pencil Award from the Columbia Daily Spectator.
1982—The National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year (The Path to Power).
1975—The Pulitzer Prize for Biography (The Power Broker).
1975 – AIA Special Citation.
1975—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” -- (The Power Broker).
1975 – Washington Monthly American Political Book Award (The Power Broker).
1965-1966- Nieman W. Lucius Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University Nieman Foundation.
1965 – The Deadline Club for outstanding newspaper reporting.
1964 – The Deadline Club for outstanding newspaper reporting.
1964 The Society of Silurians Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Public Service History for a series entitled “Misery Acres,” exposing fraudulent real estate sales by mail.
1957 – Graduated from Princeton University Cum Laude.
reviewer Peter Prescott: "I'd rather go to France with Ina Caro than with Henry Adams or Henry James. The unique premise of her intelligent and discerning book is so startling that it’s a wonder no one has thought of it before." Ina frequently writes about their travels through France in her Paris to the Past blog, and in June 2011, W. W. Norton published her second book, "Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train."
, the episode "Treehouse of Horror XVI
" features the character Lisa seen reading Master of the Senate in the vignette "Bart A.I."
In the 2004 film The Stepford Wives
, the Stepford Women discuss Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson
mid-movie during an ominous "book club" meeting.
Journalist
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and author
Author
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known for his celebrated biographies
Biography
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of United States
Politics of the United States
The United States is a federal constitutional republic, in which the President of the United States , Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments.The executive branch is headed by the President...
political figures Robert Moses
Robert Moses
Robert Moses was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, Rockland County, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris, and is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of...
and Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...
. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker
The Power Broker
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1974 biography of Robert Moses, "New York City's Master Builder", by Robert Caro...
(1974), a biography of New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
urban planner Robert Moses, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He then wrote The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Three volumes have published, running to more than 2,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career. A fourth and fifth volume will deal with Johnson's vice...
(1982, 1990, 2002), a planned four-volume biography of the former president. 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 Historian to the book that "best exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist") two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the H.L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, and an Award in Literature and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Biography
He was born on October 30, 1935. In 1953, Caro graduated from the Horace Mann SchoolHorace Mann School
Horace Mann School is an independent college preparatory school in New York City, New York, United States founded in 1887 known for its rigorous course of studies. Horace Mann is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League, educating students from all across the New York tri-state area from...
, where he was known for translating an edition of his school newspaper into Russian and mailing 10,000 copies to schoolboys in the USSR. In 1957, he received a degree in English from Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. While at Princeton, he was managing editor
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...
of The Daily Princetonian
The Daily Princetonian
The Daily Princetonian is the daily independent student newspaper of Princeton University. It is published five days a week from September to May and three days a week during the University's Reading Period in January and May.- Finances :...
. He was a Carnegie Fellow at Columbia University and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He began his professional career as a reporter with the New Brunswick Daily Home News (now merged into the Home News Tribune
Home News Tribune
Home News Tribune is a newspaper of New Jersey, serving the Middlesex County area of Central Jersey. The paper has an average daily weekday circulation of about 49,000. The newspaper is the result of a mid 1990s combination of The Home News of East Brunswick and The News Tribune of Woodbridge...
) in New Jersey. He also spent six years as an investigative reporter with the Long Island
Long Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
, New York newspaper Newsday
Newsday
Newsday is a daily American newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area...
. In October 2007, Caro was named a "Holtzbrinck Distinguished Visitor" at the American Academy in Berlin
American Academy in Berlin
The American Academy in Berlin is a research and cultural institution in Berlin whose stated mission is to foster a greater understanding and dialogue between the people of the United States and the people of Germany.The American Academy was founded in September 1994 by a group of prominent...
, Germany but then was unable to attend. On February 25, 2010 President Obama awarded Caro the nation's highest award in the Humanities, The National Humanities Medal. Delivering remarks at the end of the ceremony the President said, "I think about Robert Caro and reading The Power Broker
The Power Broker
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1974 biography of Robert Moses, "New York City's Master Builder", by Robert Caro...
back when I was 22 years old and just being mesmerized, and I'm sure it helped to shape how I think about politics." On April 10, 2010, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
The Power Broker
After spending the academic year of 1966-1967 as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard UniversityHarvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Caro began work on his first book, The Power Broker, which is both a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses and a study of Caro's favorite theme, the acquisition and use of power. Not finished until 1974, the work was based on extensive research and 522 interviews, including seven interviews with Moses himself, several with Michael Madigan (who worked for Moses for thirty-five years); and numerous interviews with Sidney Shapiro (Moses's General Manager for forty years); as well as interviews with men who worked for and knew Moses’s mentor, New York Governor Al Smith
Al Smith
Alfred Emanuel Smith. , known in private and public life as Al Smith, was an American statesman who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York three times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928...
. His wife Ina Caro functioned as his research assistant. In fact, her master's thesis on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge that connects the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City at the Narrows, the reach connecting the relatively protected upper bay with the larger lower bay....
stemmed from this work. The Power Broker was a critical success, winning the Pulitzer Prize in Biography
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.-1910s:* 1917: Julia Ward Howe by Laura E...
and the Francis Parkman Prize
Francis Parkman Prize
The Francis Parkman Prize, named after Francis Parkman, is awarded by the Society of American Historians for the best book in American history each year. Its purpose is to promote literary distinction in historical writing...
, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best "exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist," and was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century.
The Power Broker is widely viewed as a seminal work because it combined painstaking historical research with a smoothly flowing narrative writing style. The success of this approach was evident in his chapter on the construction of the Cross-Bronx Expressway
Cross-Bronx Expressway
The Cross Bronx Expressway is a major expressway in the New York City borough of the Bronx, conceived by Robert Moses and built between 1948 and 1972. It carries traffic on Interstate 95 through the city, and serves as a portion of Interstate 295 toward Long Island; a portion is also designated U.S...
, where Caro reported the controversy from all perspectives, including that of neighborhood residents. The result was a work of powerful literary as well as academic interest.
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Following this success, Caro turned his attention to Lyndon B. Johnson. Caro retraced Johnson's life by temporarily moving to ruralRural
Rural areas or the country or countryside are areas that are not urbanized, though when large areas are described, country towns and smaller cities will be included. They have a low population density, and typically much of the land is devoted to agriculture...
Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
and Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, in order to better understand Johnson's upbringing and to interview anyone who had known Johnson. The work, entitled The Years of Lyndon Johnson, is projected to run to five volumes. The first, The Path to Power (1982) covers Johnson's life up to his failed 1941 campaign for the United States Senate
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
. It won a National Book Critics Circle Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle to promote the finest books and reviews published in English....
, 1983, a Washington Monthly Best Political Book Award, 1983, and an H.L. Mencken Award. The second volume, Means of Ascent (1990), commences in the aftermath of that defeat and continues through his election to that office in 1948. This volume won a National Book Critics Circle Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle to promote the finest books and reviews published in English....
, 1990, and Washington Monthly Best Political Book Award, 1990. The third and most recent published volume, Master of the Senate (2002) chronicles Johnson's rapid ascent and rule as Senate Majority Leader; it garnered Caro a second Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
in Biography as well as a National Book Award
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
, a Carl Sandburg Award, a John Steinbeck Award and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Times of London wrote "Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age."
In November 2011, it was announced that the fourth volume, tentatively titled The Passage of Power, would be released in May 2012, covering LBJ's life from 1958 to 1964, and that the full project had expanded to five volumes, with the fifth volume requiring another two to three years to write.
Caro's books portray Johnson alternatively as a scheming opportunist and visionary progressive. Caro argued, for example, that Johnson's victory in the 1948 runoff for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
was only achieved through extensive fraud and ballot box stuffing. Caro also highlighted some of Johnson's campaign contributions, such as those from the Texas construction firm Brown and Root
Kellogg, Brown and Root
KBR, Inc. is an American engineering, construction and private military contracting company, formerly a subsidiary of Halliburton, headquartered in Houston. The company also has large offices in Arlington, Birmingham, Newark, Delaware and Leatherhead, UK. After Halliburton acquired Dresser...
; in 1962 the company was acquired by another Texas firm, Halliburton
Halliburton
Halliburton is the world's second largest oilfield services corporation with operations in more than 70 countries. It has hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands and divisions worldwide and employs over 50,000 people....
, which became a major contractor in the Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
. In addition, Caro argued that Johnson was awarded the Silver Star
Silver Star
The Silver Star is the third-highest combat military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States armed forces for valor in the face of the enemy....
in World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
mainly for political reasons, and that he later lied to journalists and the public about the circumstances for which it was awarded. Caro's portrayal of Johnson also notes his struggles on behalf of progressive causes such as the Voting Rights Act.
Awards
For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award for the Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and has won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Art and Letters,awarded once every five years, and the Francis Parkman Prize. In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama, the highest award in the humanities given in this country. In 2011, Robert Caro will be the recipient of the 2011 BIO Award given each year by members of Biographers International "to a colleague who had made a major contribution in the advancement of the art and craft of real life depiction."2010—the National Humanities Medal.
2010—Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
2003—The Pulitzer Prize for Biography (Master of the Senate).
2003—The John Steinbeck Award in literature (Master of the Senate).
2003—The Carl Sandberg Award in Literature (Master of the Senate).
2003—The Los Angeles Times Book award in Non-Fiction (Master of the Senate).
2002— The National Book Award (Master of the Senate).
2002 - The Power Broker was chosen by the Modern Library as one of
the hundred greatest non-fiction books of the twentieth century.
1990—The National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year (Means of Ascent).
1991—Washington Monthly American Political Book Award (Means of Ascent).
1986—The Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
1983 – The Mencken Award for the best book of 1982 (The Path to Power).
1983 – The Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters (The Path to Power).
1983 – American Academy of Arts and Letters Award.
1983 – The Blue Pencil Award from the Columbia Daily Spectator.
1982—The National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year (The Path to Power).
1975—The Pulitzer Prize for Biography (The Power Broker).
1975 – AIA Special Citation.
1975—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” -- (The Power Broker).
1975 – Washington Monthly American Political Book Award (The Power Broker).
1965-1966- Nieman W. Lucius Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University Nieman Foundation.
1965 – The Deadline Club for outstanding newspaper reporting.
1964 – The Deadline Club for outstanding newspaper reporting.
1964 The Society of Silurians Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Public Service History for a series entitled “Misery Acres,” exposing fraudulent real estate sales by mail.
1957 – Graduated from Princeton University Cum Laude.
Family
Caro has described his wife, Ina Caro, as "the whole team" on all four of his books. She sold the Caros' house to fund work on The Power Broker, and is the only person other than himself who conducted research for her husband's books. She is the author of her own book, The Road from the Past: Travelling through History in France. When it was published in 1994, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., called it "the essential travelling companion ... for all who love France and its history." Commented NewsweekNewsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
reviewer Peter Prescott: "I'd rather go to France with Ina Caro than with Henry Adams or Henry James. The unique premise of her intelligent and discerning book is so startling that it’s a wonder no one has thought of it before." Ina frequently writes about their travels through France in her Paris to the Past blog, and in June 2011, W. W. Norton published her second book, "Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train."
Pop culture references
In the television series The SimpsonsThe Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
, the episode "Treehouse of Horror XVI
Treehouse of Horror XVI
"Treehouse of Horror XVI" is the fourth episode of the seventeenth season of The Simpsons, as well as the sixteenth "Treehouse of Horror" episode. In this year's installment, The Simpsons replace Bart with a robot son after Bart falls into a coma in "B.I.: Bartificial Intelligence," Homer and...
" features the character Lisa seen reading Master of the Senate in the vignette "Bart A.I."
In the 2004 film The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives (2004 film)
The Stepford Wives is a 2004 American science fiction film. The film is a remake of the 1975 film of the same name; both films are based on the Ira Levin novel The Stepford Wives...
, the Stepford Women discuss Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Three volumes have published, running to more than 2,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career. A fourth and fifth volume will deal with Johnson's vice...
mid-movie during an ominous "book club" meeting.
External links
- Official website
- Robert A. Caro's Jan. 5, 1998 New Yorker article on Robert Moses and the writing of The Power Broker
- Short essay about Caro by Morgan Meis.
- LOC.gov video. Robert Caro discusses his new book on President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Feb. 16, 2009 "Newsweek" article on Robert Caro and the publication of his final volume on President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Robert Caro: Understanding Power (Documentary on the life of Robert Caro)
- Booknotes interview with Caro on Means of Ascent, April 29, 1990
- New York: A Documentary Film Caro appears as an on camera expert in the 1999 film New York: A Documentary FilmNew York: A Documentary FilmNew York: A Documentary Film is an eight-part, 17½ hour, American documentary film on the history of New York City. It was directed by Ric Burns and originally aired in the U.S. on PBS. The film was a co-production of Thirteen New York and WGBH Boston....
directed by Ric BurnsRic BurnsRic Burns is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries for nearly 20 years, beginning with his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series The Civil War , which he produced with his older brother Ken Burns and wrote with Geoffrey C...
for PBSPublic Broadcasting ServiceThe Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
.