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Robert A. Caro

“What I am trying to do is to show not only how power works but the effect of power on the powerless: How political power affects our lives, every single day, in ways we never think about.”

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“The greatest political biographer of the modern era.”

The Sunday Times (UK)

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“Caro has forever changed the way we think about, and read, American history…Although the amount of research Caro has done for these books is staggering, it’s his immense talent as a writer that has made his [body of work] one of America’s most amazing literary achievements” (NPR).

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Winner of the National Book Award

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

The Passage of Power by Robert Caro

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

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National Best Seller

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I think about Robert Caro and reading The Power Broker back when I was twenty-two years old and just being mesmerized, and I’m sure it helped to shape how I think about politics.
—President Barack Obama, presenting Robert Caro with the National Humanities Medal