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One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer." -The Sunday Times (London)From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books.Now in paperback, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively writte...

Robert A. Caro, 'one of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer' (Sunday Times), is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, whose biographies are widely considered to be masterpieces. In Working he offers a captivating account of his life as a writer, describing the sometimes staggering lengths to which he has gone in order to produce his books and offering priceless insights into the art and craft of ...

Robert A. Caro has been described as ¿the greatest political biographer of our times¿ (Sunday Times) and ¿the most revered historian of his generation¿ (New York Times). His first book, The Power Broker, published in 1974, was described in 2015 as ¿one of the greatest non-fiction works ever written¿ (Sunday Times) and his ongoing multi-volume work The Years of Lyndon Johnson has been described as ¿the greatest biography of our era¿ (The Times)...

Robert A. Caro has been described as ¿the greatest political biographer of our times¿ (Sunday Times) and ¿the most revered historian of his generation¿ (New York Times). His first book, The Power Broker, published in 1974, was described in 2015 as ¿one of the greatest non-fiction works ever written¿ (Sunday Times) and his ongoing multi-volume work The Years of Lyndon Johnson has been described as ¿the greatest biography of our era¿ (The Times)...

Robert A. Caro has been described as ¿the greatest political biographer of our times¿ (Sunday Times) and ¿the most revered historian of his generation¿ (New York Times). His first book, The Power Broker, published in 1974, was described in 2015 as ¿one of the greatest non-fiction works ever written¿ (Sunday Times) and his ongoing multi-volume work The Years of Lyndon Johnson has been described as ¿the greatest biography of our era¿ (The Times)...

Robert A. Caro¿s first book, The Power Broker, published in 1974, was described in 2015 as ¿one of the greatest non-fiction works ever written¿ (Sunday Times). His ongoing multi-volume work The Years of Lyndon Johnson has been described as ¿the greatest biography of our era¿ (The Times). With these books he has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice won the National Book Award and three times won the National Book Critic¿s Circle Award. He has al...

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One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer." -The Sunday Times (London)From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books.Now in paperback, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively writte...

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president-no era of American politics-has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak. The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power...

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Robert A. Caro has been described as ¿the greatest political biographer of our times¿ (Sunday Times) and ¿a world authority on the nature of power and how to use it¿ (Guardian). His first book, The Power Broker, won the Pulitzer Prize in biography and the Frances Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. His subsequent books comprise a multi-volume work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, 'regarded by many as the greatest political biogra...

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Als John F. Kennedy tödlich getroffen wird, liegt Lyndon B. Johnson auf dem Boden seines Cabriolets. Ein Leibwächter hat sich über den Vizepräsidenten geworfen. Johnson sieht nichts, hört nur panische Stimmen. Erst im Krankenhaus nimmt der Mann, der später die Rassentrennung abschaffen und sein Land in das Desaster von Vietnam führen sollte, das Heft des Handelns in die Hand. Robert A. Caro hat die Ereignisse, die die Welt erschütterten, anhan...

The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career -- 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had a...

The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career -- 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had a...

The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career -- 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had a...

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Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson continues--one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. It is the magnum opus of a writer perfectly suited to his task: the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer-historian, chronicler also of Robert Moses in The Power Broker, whose inspired research and profound understanding of the nature of ambition and the dynamics of power have made him a pe...