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Robert A. Caro


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...

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Master of the Senate
Written by Robert A. Caro
Read by Grover Gardner

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography - Presidents
978-1-4159-3997-0 (1-4159-3997-7)

November 28, 2006 | $84.00



Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his...


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Master of the Senate
Written by Robert A. Caro

Trade Paperback | 1232 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Presidents; Biography & Autobiography - Political; History - United States - 20th Century
978-0-394-72095-1 (0-394-72095-4)

April 25, 2003 | $29.95



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 twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered body in...


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Master of the Senate
Written by Robert A. Caro

Hardcover | 1200 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Presidents; History - United States - 20th Century
978-0-394-52836-6 (0-394-52836-0)

April 23, 2002 | $53.00



Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his...


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Master of the Senate
Written by Robert A. Caro
Read by Stephen Lang

Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography - Presidents
978-0-553-75577-0 (0-553-75577-3)

April 23, 2002 | $21.95



Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his...


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Master of the Senate
Written by Robert A. Caro
Read by Grover Gardner

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography
978-1-4159-2376-4 (1-4159-2376-0)

April 12, 2002 | $29.95



Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his...


book cover
Master of the Senate
Written by Robert A. Caro
Read by Grover Gardner

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography
978-1-4159-2377-1 (1-4159-2377-9)

April 12, 2002 | $29.95



Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his...


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Master of the Senate
Written by Robert A. Caro
Read by Grover Gardner

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography - Presidents
978-0-7366-9696-8 (0-7366-9696-2)

March 29, 2002 | $29.95



Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his...


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Means of Ascent
Written by Robert A. Caro

Trade Paperback | 592 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Presidents
978-0-679-73371-3 (0-679-73371-X)

March 6, 1991 | $25.00



Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues -- one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. In Means of Ascent the Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Also available as a hardcover.

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Means of Ascent
Written by Robert A. Caro

Hardcover | 560 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Presidents; History - United States - 20th Century; Political Science - Leadership
978-0-394-52835-9 (0-394-52835-2)

March 7, 1990 | $73.00



Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues -- one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. In Means of Ascent the Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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The Path to Power
Written by Robert A. Caro

Trade Paperback | 960 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Political; History - United States - 20th Century
978-0-679-72945-7 (0-679-72945-3)

February 17, 1990 | $26.95



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...

Also available as a hardcover.

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The Path to Power
Written by Robert A. Caro

Hardcover | 960 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Political
978-0-394-49973-4 (0-394-49973-5)

November 12, 1982 | $65.95



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...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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The Power Broker
Written by Robert A. Caro

Trade Paperback | 1344 pages | Vintage | Social Science - Sociology - Urban; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-394-72024-1 (0-394-72024-5)

July 12, 1975 | $29.95



One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost...

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The Power Broker
Written by Robert A. Caro

Hardcover | 1336 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Political
978-0-394-48076-3 (0-394-48076-7)

July 12, 1974 | $75.00



For the sheer magnitude, depth and authority of its revelations, The Power Broker stands alone---a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the virtually unknown saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the hidden story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York through the past half-century.

Robert Caro's monumental...

Also available as a trade paperback.