Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 7pm, Music Building, $20

A 35th Anniversary Celebration of the Work of Robert A. Caro
with
R o b e r t   A.   C a r o   
with Leonard Lopate

Robert A. Caro published his first book, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, thirty-five years ago in 1974. David Halberstam has described The Power Broker as “surely the greatest book ever written about a city.” Mr. Caro is also the author of the three volumes that comprise The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power, Means of Ascent, and Master of the Senate. The Times (of London) has said of The Years of Lyndon Johnson that it is “regarded by many as the greatest political biography of the modern era.” Mr. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won the National Book Award, as well as the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The New York Times Book Review has described Mr. Caro’s work as “wonderful…glorious…amazing. It reads like a Trollope novel, but not even Trollope explored the ambitions and the gullibilities of men as deliciously as Robert Caro does.” The Nation has said: “To immerse oneself in Robert Caro’s heroic biographies is to come face to face with a shocking but unavoidable realization: Much of what we think we know about money, power and politics is a fairy tale…[Caro’s work] forces us not only to rewrite our national political history but to rethink it as well.” The Austin American-Statesman has described the work of Mr. Caro as “the highest expression of biography as art.”

Mr. Caro will be interviewed by Leonard Lopate.

photo of Robert A. Caro: Joyce Ravid