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	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Robert A. Caro
		Robert A. Caro was graduated from Princeton University, was for six years an award-winning investigative reporter for Newsday, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
		Caro introduces the story with a dramatic account of the Senate itself: how Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun had made it the center of governmental energy, the forum in which the great issues of the country were thrashed out.
		Caro demonstrates how Johnson’s political genius enabled him to reconcile the unreconcilable: to retain the support of the southerners who controlled the Senate while earning the trust—or at least the cooperation—of the liberals, led by Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey, without whom he could not achieve his goal of winning the presidency.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/caro (1479 words)

	Booknotes
		CARO: Well, no, it's more complicated than that because Johnson's papers were given to the federal government under a deed of gift, which was later incorporated in a will, and that deed of gift gives the library broad discretion as to what they can close.
		CARO: He was running for the Senate against the man on the other side of the page, the man with the pipe, Coke Stevenson.
		CARO: Robert Gotlieb, who is the editor, he went from Knopf to the New Yorker, but he edited this book just like he did the others, and I hope to have the same publishing house.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1001 (7772 words)

	May/June 2002
		Caro interviewed hundreds of people who knew the Johnson family, and the result was an affecting portrait of a young man who grew up in squalor (“It was a dirty house,” one neighbor insisted), with idealistic parents ill-equipped to handle the brutal realities of life in the Hill Country.
		Caro, in the course of his research, became obsessed by the nature of senatorial power; by the concept of “legislative genius”; by the byzantine rules that prevail in the chamber; and by the way in which Johnson bent the institution to his will.
		Caro expended much effort, for instance, in attempting to ascertain what precisely LBJ did with a tiny passageway (four square feet in size) between his office and the Senate cafeteria; in the end, after much investigation, the true purpose of the passageway eluded Caro.
	archives.cjr.org /year/02/3/sherman.asp (5323 words)

	Power, Politics and Robert Caro
		Caro said Johnson’s meteoric rise as majority leader (he was the youngest in history, at age 44) can be attributed to LBJ’s knack for finding untapped sources of power.
		Caro said he was able to identify about twenty sources of Johnson’s power.
		LBJ made sure he was the sole conduit of contributions between the conservative Texas oil men who needed government contracts and were willing to “pay” in the form of campaign contributions, and liberal senators from the Northeast.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /news/news/2003/caro_twhite_102803.htm (433 words)

	'The Years Of Lyndon Johnson: Master Of The Senate' by Robert Caro
		Robert Caro was 41 when he began work on his biography of Lyndon Johnson.
		As Caro defined it in “Path to Power,” Johnson’s character was formed by his obsession to erase the humiliation of his father’s failure and poverty through political success.
		Caro, however, is not sympathetic to Lady Bird, whom he accuses of neglecting her two daughters in the service of her husband.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20020101review975.asp (981 words)

	Robert Caro -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In 1957, Caro graduated with a degree in English from (A university town in central New Jersey) Princeton, where he was managing (A person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)) editor of The Daily Princetonian.
		He began his professional career as a (A person who investigates and reports or edits news stories) reporter with the New Brunswick Daily Home News in New Jersey.
		Following this success, Caro turned his attention to (36th President of the United States; was elected Vice President and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973)) Lyndon Johnson.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_caro.htm (403 words)

	Hamptons View - John Steinbeck Award for Robert Caro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Each year, the college presents a noted area author with the John Steinbeck Award, and this year it went to Robert Caro, for his many books including Powerbrokers and Means of Ascent, as well as his book on Lyndon Johnson's presidency.
		Stepping in for Caro to receive this award, was his wife, Ina Caro, who talked about all the interviews she witnessed, and all the research her husband has done for these books.
		Robert Caro is a wonderful, and important writer.
	www.hamptonsview.com /hamptons_article_surface_308.htm (834 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
		Caro shows how Johnson’s brilliance, charm, and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and most powerful Majority Leader in history and how he used his incomparable legislative genius--seducing both Northern liberals and Southern conservatives--to pass the first Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction.
		Caro achieves a special tension, too rare in history books but essential in epic poetry: the drama of a hero who is wrestling with his enemies, his limitations and his fate to achieve something truly lasting.
		Caro's been burrowing beneath the shadows of the substance of our politics for more than twenty-eight years, and what he finds is both fascinating and surprising.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0394720954 (1529 words)

	Online NewsHour: Conversation: Award Winner Caro -- June 3, 2003
		RAY SUAREZ: This year's Pulitzer Prize for biography went to Robert Caro for his book "Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson." It examines Johnson's 12 years in the United States Senate, and is the third volume Caro has written about Johnson.
		ROBERT CARO: A lot of years of it, yes.
		ROBERT CARO: Well, you know, I was always interested when I started with Robert Moses.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june03/caro_06-03.html (1426 words)

	An Evening With Robert Caro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Robert Caro, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has dedicated the past two decades of his life to a multi-volume biography The Years of Lyndon Johnson, will present the May "Evening With…" lecture.
		Caro was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the third volume of the series, Master of the Senate.
		Caro, a graduate of Princeton University, was for six years an award-winning investigative reporter for Newsday, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
	www.lbjlib.utexas.edu /johnson/Events.hom/caro.shtm (283 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Robert Caro's Master of the Senate examines in meticulous detail Lyndon Johnson's career in that body, from his arrival in 1950 (after 12 years in the House of Representatives) until his election as JFK's vice president in 1960.
		Caro does not limit his investigation to the weeks and months preceding the passage of the voting registration law of 1957, rather he goes back to Reconstruction and gives an historical thread up to the 1950's just to get the proper perspective.
		Caro's book would have been better titled LBJ and the Art of Corruption, for he shows that part of the story brilliantly--how money and power work together (roughly, power equals money squared).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0394528360 (1894 words)

	Robert Caro Discusses His New Book on President Lyndon B. Johnson - CyberLC
		Caro, a graduate of Princeton University, was an award-winning investigative reporter at Newsday newspaper for six years.
		To work on his biography of Lyndon Johnson, Caro and his wife Ina moved from New York to Texas and then to Washington, D.C., to live in the locales where Johnson grew up and where he achieved political prominence.
		Caro has spent years examining documents in the Johnson Presidential Library in Austin and has interviewed thousands of people connected with Johnson’s life.
	www.loc.gov /locvideo/caro (170 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Robert A. Caro
		Robert A. Caro, who has won two Pulitzer Prizes, was graduated from Princeton University, was for six years an award-winning investigative reporter for Newsday, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
		Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues -- one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President.
		This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=4318 (661 words)

	Robert Caro's Three Wheeled UrS6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		We appreciate the friendships we have developed with our customers through the years and we are proud to introduce to you Robert Caro.
		We recently called Robert to ask him about his S6, what he has done to it, as well as why he chose BLAUfergnügen! as his Audi parts source.
		Robert is a motor sport enthusiast who, when he is not flying around on his trick motorcycle, he is gliding around corners in his 95.5 S6.
	www.blauparts.com /RobertCaroS6.htm (411 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		ROBERT MOSES was born on December 18, 1888.
		But then, Robert Caro's other subject, Lyndon Johnson, did perhaps ten times the damage that Moses did, and he was elected repeatedly.
		Caro writes very well, and at a personal level the story is compelling.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394480767?v=glance (2676 words)

	Robert Moses' Response to Caro's The Power Broker
		Moses wrote it in response to Robert A. Caro's 1100-plus page tome about the Power Broker.
		Moses, who was instrumental in shaping modern New York City, is depicted in Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning book as a power-hungry bureaucrat who, while never elected, had more control over public works than most mayors and governors in New York.
		Caro's biography, Moses wrote, "is full of mistakes, unsupported charges, nasty, baseless personalities and random haymakers thrown at just about everybody in public life" (see Page 2 of the letter).
	www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com /detritus/moses/index.htm (164 words)

	The New Republic: The years of Robert Caro: getting it all wrong. (Texas history; Robert A. Caro's new book on Lyndon ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Hundreds of pages before Coke Stevenson, the governor of Texas, first sets one boot in front of the other, on a dusty, deserted street in Alice, Texas, walking toward the gunslingers that he believed rustled the 1948 Senate election for Lyndon Johnson, he had already been transformed into legend.
		His apotheosis occurred the moment Robert Caro raised the curtain on him.
		The scene is pitch fl, in the vast and empty Hill Country," utterly desolate except for a campfire, around which there sits a teenager, who has been working a lonely trail carrying freight, a task too forbidding...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:9087745&refid=holomed_1 (234 words)

	Johnson's Hidden Loyalties
		Historian Robert Caro wrote that Claudia’s father was the "richest man in [Karnack, Texas]."
		Caro also indicated that Johnson’s previous two girlfriends—Carol Davis and Kitty Clyde of San Marcos and Johnson City, respectively—were also daughters of the richest men in town.
		In 1922 Robert Kleberg suffered a stroke and Richard was put in charge of the King Ranch.
	www.jfkmontreal.com /johnson%27s_hidden_loyalties.htm (4717 words)

	BookkooB: The Path to Power - Robert A. Caro
		Although it would be impossible for a short review to really do justice to Caro's epic work on LBJ (of which this is only the first part), a reviewer can, at the very least, recommend it so strongly as to compel the reader to accept the recommendation.
		For Caro, no topic is out of bounds, whether social or historical, psychological or behavioural, if its inclusion and discussion helps to make sense of the ambitious, complicated, tyrannical (and very human) Johnson.
		We read more about LBJ than we have ever read before, and Caro ensures - through fine writing and sharp, incisive insights - that we are engrossed as we read.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0394499735.htm (417 words)

	Robert Caro Message Board
		But whether Caro, the genius for Johnson, would like to or not, his chance of getting cooperation is not very high.
		Whatever flaws Moses had, and they were many, he brought parks, playgrounds, beaches and recreation to millions of people that did not have them.
		Moses was overly glorified during his lifetime but his accomplishments have been dimininished by Caro.
	www.allreaders.com /board.asp?BoardID=3312 (227 words)

	Johnson's Library and Robert Caro Make Up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Johnson's Library and Robert Caro Make Up Suggest Story
		"For 26 years Robert A. Caro has painstakingly chronicled the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
		Caro and his work were unwelcome at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum here.
	www.lisnews.com /article.php3?sid=20030522110349 (204 words)

	Powell's Books - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Culture by Robert A Caro
		In this historical tour-de-force, Robert Caro shows himself the true 'master of the Senate.' "; --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
		"For Caro writing a biography is writing a thriller--in Johnson's case, a western.
		If Mr Caro's work on Johnson has not already set a new standard in American political biography, it surely will when his story of Johnson's presidency is complete." --The Economist
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-0553712926-0 (1699 words)

	Talk of the Nation (NPR): Interview: Robert Caro discusses his new book, "Master of the Senate," and his series of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Talk of the Nation (NPR): Interview: Robert Caro discusses his new book, "Master of the Senate," and his series of books on the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson@ HighBeam Research
		Interview: Robert Caro discusses his new book, "Master of the Senate," and his series of books on the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson
		Interview: Robert Caro discusses his new book, "Master of the Senate, " and his series of books on the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:52703099&refid=holomed_1 (200 words)

	eBay - robert caro lyndon ..., The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Nonfiction Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Lyndon Johnson Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro
		Lyndon Johnson, Means of Acent by Robert A Caro HC
		Robert Caro MASTER OF SENATE Lyndon Johnson 1st SIGNED
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	Amazon.com: Books: The Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Vintage) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Robert Moses, Jones Beach, Board of Estimate, Bob Moses, City Hall, Central Park, Herald Tribune, Randall's Island, East Tremont, World's Fair, Taylor Estate, City Club, Tammany Hall, City Planning Commission, Parks Council, Citizens Union, Harlem River, Housing Authority, Nassau County, Staten Island, State Council of Parks, Stanley Isaacs, West Side Improvement, Triborough Authority, New Jersey
		The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro on 4 pages
		The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Vol.1: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394720245?v=glance (2704 words)

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