He lives with his wife, the writer Ina Caro, in New York City, where he is at work on the fifth and final volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Born in 1935, he graduated from Princeton University, later became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and was an investigative reporter for Newsday for six years. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years.
The pace of the tightly woven narrative never once flags. The Path to Power by Robert Caro - YouTube 0:00 / 40:24 Podcast The Path to Power by Robert Caro Books of Titans 6.42K subscribers Subscribe 1. We found 70 book recommendations similar to The Path to Power. He has also been awarded virtually every other major literary honour, including the National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, the highest award in the humanities given in the United States. Robert Caro, a journalist who is a virtuoso of research, and a master craftsman with the old typewriter he uses when writing, has painted a portrait of young Lyndon Baines Johnson that is rich, textured, filled with intricate detail, and scathing in its judgments. With these books he has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice won the National Book Award and three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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). 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).
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