For more than three decades, Robert A. Caro has been one of the leading biographers of our time. He chronicled the political trail that defined Robert Moses as one of New York’s most influential and controversial figures in The Power Broker, and traced Lyndon Johnson’s
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rise from poverty to power in the three-volume The Years of Lyndon Johnson, garnering two Pulitzer Prizes and three National Book Critics’ Circle awards. In this Leon Levy Biography Lecture at the CUNY Graduate Center, Caro — who lived in the Texas Hill Country of Johnson’s youth as he researched his biography — discusses the critical role physical setting plays in nonfiction. “For a book to endure, the sense of place must be present,” Caro said, “letting the reader see clearly enough, (so) the scene becomes more vivid and more real to him.”
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