Robert Allan Caro (conceived October 30, 1935) is an American columnist and creator known for his praised histories of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.
In the wake of working for a long time as a correspondent, Caro composed The Power Broker (1974), an account of New York urban organizer Robert Moses, which was picked by the Modern Library as one of the hundred biggest genuine books of the twentieth century. He has since composed four of an arranged five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a memoir of the previous president.
For his memoirs, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, two National Book Awards (counting one for Lifetime Achievement), the Francis Parkman Prize (granted by the Society of American Historians to the book that "best represents the union of the student of history and the craftsman"), three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the H.L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, the D.B. Hardeman Prize, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010 President Barack Obama granted Caro the National Humanities Medal.
Because of Caro's notoriety for thorough research and detail, he is in some cases conjured by analysts of different scholars who are called "Caro-esque" for their own particular broad research.
In the wake of working for a long time as a correspondent, Caro composed The Power Broker (1974), an account of New York urban organizer Robert Moses, which was picked by the Modern Library as one of the hundred biggest genuine books of the twentieth century. He has since composed four of an arranged five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a memoir of the previous president.
For his memoirs, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, two National Book Awards (counting one for Lifetime Achievement), the Francis Parkman Prize (granted by the Society of American Historians to the book that "best represents the union of the student of history and the craftsman"), three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the H.L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, the D.B. Hardeman Prize, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010 President Barack Obama granted Caro the National Humanities Medal.
Because of Caro's notoriety for thorough research and detail, he is in some cases conjured by analysts of different scholars who are called "Caro-esque" for their own particular broad research.
