Robert Caro

Caro Is Right About LBJ: I Know, I Was There

Newton N. Minow | Posted 05.22.2012

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Newton N. Minow

Simply put, the LBJ I knew hungered for power, and knew he knew how to use it. The Kennedy I knew grudgingly but genuinely admired LBJ's ability. Robert Caro's book reminded me of a sad conversation I had with LBJ during the time he was languishing in the vice presidency.

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The One Book Review Robert Caro Cares About

Al Eisele | Posted 05.18.2012

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Al Eisele

Robert Caro says he doesn't pay much attention to what reviewers write about his books, but he paid plenty of attention to what one reviewer wrote about The Passage of Power, the fourth and latest volume of his monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson.

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Obama: The Black LBJ

Jason Stanford | Posted 05.14.2012

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Jason Stanford

Johnson rose through the legislative ranks as a segregationist Southerner, so when he ended a speech to a joint session of Congress with the phrase "We shall overcome," Johnson fundamentally changed the American political landscape.

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Both Sides: Caro on LBJ-BHO, Huff/Matalin on a Gay Week

HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.13.2012

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HuffPost Radio

2011-11-29-20111107bothsidesnow.jpgHuffington/Matalin discuss how the shunned VP found his voice "in the crack of a gunshot." What can Obama learn from a "political genius" who unified the country on rights but divided it over war?

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LBJ, Two Stories

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.08.2012

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Reese Schonfeld

It would be a colossal bit of hubris to suggest that Robert Caro needs any help from me in researching Lyndon Johnson's presidency from 1964-68, but I have two good stories about that period, and I'd like to get them on Huffington before the book comes out.

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Robert Caro: Lyndon B. Johnson's Climb To The Top

Posted 05.01.2012

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From Zoë Triska, Huffington Post: The following is an excerpt from Chapter One of Robert Caro's fourth volume on Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Passage of P...

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Ryan Grim

Robert Caro Praises Reid: 'The Other Side Is Intractable'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.01.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Harry Reid, as majority leader of the United States Senate, has done "a terrific job," according to the most celebrated historian of the...

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Robert Caro On His New Lyndon Johnson Volume

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 04.30.2012

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NEW YORK — Robert Caro receives the most interesting mail. "I get letters, constantly, saying, `I see your book's coming. I hope you're going t...

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Laws and Sausages

Gary Hart | Posted 04.15.2012

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Gary Hart

If a majority of Americans don't want to know what goes on behind the corridors of power, it is because they assume, or are constantly told by cynical media chatterers, that it is a corrupt system being used against them.

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The Greatest Biographer Who Has Ever Lived

Esquire | Posted 04.13.2012

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Robert Caro has spent thirty-eight years writing the biography of one man. The fourth volume of that work, like its three predecessors a giant achieve...

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Robert Moses and the Second Avenue Subway

Joan Marans Dim | Posted 04.28.2012

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Joan Marans Dim

The world was allegedly created in six days (God rested on the seventh day), so why is it taking New York City so long -- some 90 years, or possibly longer -- to create the Second Avenue Subway?

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Unauthorized, But Not Untrue

Kitty Kelley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kitty Kelley

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage. The authorized b...

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Why Doesn't Ken Auletta Want My Money? (the Case for Selling Books by the Chapter)

David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Quigg

Ken Auletta recently noted, without any apparent evidence to support his claim, "no one, with the possible exception of students, will want to buy a single chapter of most books."

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The Second Energy Revolution

Wallace Turbeville | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wallace Turbeville

Today, the federal government is considering a second revolution in energy. The concerns today are threats to our future well-being: climate change and dependence on foreign sources of fuel.

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Applying Historical Lessons to Health Care Reform

Bill Cunningham | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Cunningham

In the health care fight, perhaps Rahm Emmanuel and Company might have benefited from looking at President Lyndon Baines Johnson's approach to the various Civil Rights bills that passed on his watch.

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Why Can't Obama Be More Like LBJ?

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stanton Peele

We are unlikely to ever again see the likes of LBJ -- or of the huge changes he crafted in our society -- and we are just now starting to understand what we have lost.

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O'Malley vs. Moses, a Half-Century Later

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert E. Murphy

The words "Brooklyn" and "Dodgers" were so firmly bonded that their separation had not been imaginable, but in 1957 Walter O'Malley managed to separate them.

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Don't Do It, Rahm!

William Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Klein

Even if helping Obama means more to Rahm Emanuel than his personal political career, he can do more for Barack by staying in the House.

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Why This Is A Night To Remember

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sandy Goodman

The dramatic drive to move forward as a nation enables a black man to be chosen tonight as one of the two major party candidates for president, something unthinkable less than half a century ago.

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