Robert Caro

February. 07, 2019

The famous Robert Caro says he’s not quite done telling stories yet and has one of his own to tell.

The American award-winning author and journalist Robert Caro, who is now 83 years old gave his life to writing biographies and different pieces for others, is in the last stages of creating his final book.

Caro has won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography twice, three of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many more awards in his lifetime. He is best known for his work for biographies of political figure Robert Mosses and the 36thPresident of the United States Lyndon Johnson.

“Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency,” said Robert A. Caro as he gives his thoughts on the late president.

Caro is now reflecting on personal reflections and professional guidance in his own career as a writer and reporter in his upcoming autobiography “Turn Every Page”. In the book he includes previous lectures, interviews, and new material as well.

Caro talks about his journey of gathering thoughts and experiences as he was writing behind such prize-winning books as his Johnson biography "Master of the Senate" and his classic book on municipal builder Robert Moses, "The Power Broker."

"Here we have ... some scattered, almost random glimpses of a few encounters I've had while doing the research on the Moses and Johnson books, encounters both with documents and with witnesses," said Robert A. Caro.

Caro talks about his experiences with old bosses such as Mr. Hathaway, who he said had something people from prestigious schools. Caro graduated from Harvard and didn’t’ think Mr. Hathway was too fond of that.

Caro describes all the frustrating and pointless work that his boss made him do and explained he did not get a good grasp of the meaning turn every page and never assume anything Mr. Hathway continuously said to him.

Caro reveals the next Lyndon Johnson book remains several years from completion. The fourth Johnson biography, "The Passage of Power," came out in 2012, and ended in the initial months of Johnson's presidency, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

The fifth Johnson biography is expected to cover the rest of his time in the White House, which he left in 1969, and continue to his death four years later.

Caro began writing about Johnson in the mid-1970s and over the decades has built a large and obsessive following, somehow keeping readers in suspense as if he were writing installments for a novel.

Caro is known for his extremely detailed and very informational way of writing where he’s done deep research to create his pieces.

“I am constantly being asked why it takes me so long to finish books, well it’s the research that takes the time,” said Robert A. Caro

Robert Caro is the essence of story-telling. The deep and important research and his technique of “Turn Every Page and Never Assume Anything” that’s he learned through his journey in life will be for legendary.