Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson.

The official website of historian and biographer, Robert A. Caro, author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson books.

Sep 30, 2024 · Talking to historian and author Robert Caro is like stepping into a time machine, as NPR discovered on a visit to his New York office recently.

Robert Caro, American historian and author whose extensive biographies of Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert Moses went beyond studies of the men who were their subjects to investigate the …

His Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicle of Robert Moses is a page-turning — around 1,300 pages — appraisal of the New York City municipal builder, portrayed by Caro as a man of historic vision …

Mar 3, 2025 · A good, long profile of author Robert Caro, in which he reveals that he’s written 951 pages of the fifth (and final) installment of his series of books on LBJ — but also that he’s “not …

In his biography of a city bureaucrat, Robert Caro created a lasting portrait of American corruption by turning the craft of journalism into a pursuit of high art.

Born and raised in New York City, Caro graduated from Princeton University, was later a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and worked for six years as an investigative reporter for Newsday.

Caro’s first book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, won the Pulitzer Prize in biography and the Francis Parkman Prize, and was named one of the hundred …

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert Caro (Knopf) Winning Work Portions of The Power Broker excerpted as "Annals of Politics" features in The New …