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Film, Video Robert Caro: 2012 National Book Festival

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  • Robert Caro: 2012 National Book Festival

Summary

  • Robert Caro discusses "The Passage of Power," the latest installment in his biographical series on President Lyndon Johnson, at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival.

Event Date

  • September 22, 2012

Notes

  • -  Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Critics Circle awards and the National Book Award, among many others, Robert A. Caro is the author of the new No. 1 best-selling "The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson," the fourth volume of the critically praised series about the 36th president. Caro's his first book, a biography of New York City's "master builder" Robert Moses, was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the 20th century.

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  • 48 minutes 4 seconds

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