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Robert A. Caro
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For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best “exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.”

To create his first book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the... Read More

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Master of the Senate
The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Vol. 3
Written by Robert A. Caro
Read by Grover Gardner


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 29, 2002
Price: $21.66

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Master of the Senate
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Written by Robert A. Caro


Format: Hardcover, 1200 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 23, 2002
Price: $35.00

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Biography
Winner of the National Book Award
National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee, Biography/Autobiography



Paperback Available May, 2003

Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the... Read more >

Master of the Senate

Written by Robert A. Caro
Read by Stephen Lang


Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: April 23, 2002
Price: $16.95

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Master of the Senate
The Years of LBJ, Vol. III
Written by Robert A. Caro


Format: Trade Paperback, 1232 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 25, 2003
Price: $19.95


Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Biography
Winner of the National Book Award
National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee, Biography/Autobiography

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his... Read more >

Master of the Senate
The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Volume 3
Written by Robert A. Caro
Read by Grover Gardner


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: April 12, 2002
Price: $21.66

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Master of the Senate
The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Volume 3
Written by Robert A. Caro
Read by Grover Gardner


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: April 12, 2002
Price: $21.66

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Master of the Senate
The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Vol. 3
Written by Robert A. Caro
Read by Grover Gardner


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: November 28, 2006
Price: $65.00

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Means of Ascent
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 2
Written by Robert A. Caro


Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 6, 1991
Price: $20.00

The second volume of Caro's Johnson biography, Means of Ascent carries Johnson through his service in World War II and the foundation of his long-concealed fortune and the facts behind the myths he created about it. The explosive heart of the book is Caro's revelation of the true story of the... Read more >
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Means of Ascent
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 2
Written by Robert A. Caro


Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 7, 1990
Price: $60.00

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The Path to Power
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Written by Robert A. Caro


Format: Hardcover, 960 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 12, 1982
Price: $49.95

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The Path to Power
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1
Written by Robert A. Caro


Format: Trade Paperback, 960 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 17, 1990
Price: $22.00

This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path To Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to... Read more >
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The Power Broker
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Written by Robert A. Caro


Format: Hardcover, 1336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: July 12, 1974
Price: $65.00

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The Power Broker
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Written by Robert A. Caro


Format: Trade Paperback, 1344 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 12, 1975
Price: $25.00

This is Caro's examination of how one man, Robert Moses, shaped the politics, the physical structure, and even the problems of urban decline in the city and state of New York.

Winner of both the Pulitzer and Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping)... Read more >
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