TITLE: Master of the Senate
SPEAKER: Robert A. Caro
EVENT DATE: 05/20/2003
RUNNING TIME: 59 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Robert A. Caro recently won the Pulitzer Prize in biography for the Master of the Senate (Knopf, 2002) the third volume in his biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Speaker Biography: Robert Caro recently won the Pulitzer Prize in biography for "Master of the Senate," the third volume in his biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson. A graduate of Princeton University, he was an award-winning investigative reporter at Newsday newspaper for six years. A Harvard University Nieman fellow, he won the Pulitzer Prize in biography for his first book, "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York." Both the first and second volumes of "The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power" and "Means of Ascent" received the National Book Critics Circle Award for the most distinguished nonfiction work of the year.
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