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The Life of LBJ

Political historian Robert Caro

Washington, DC
Sunday, April 15, 2012

On May 6, political historian Robert Caro will appear on C-SPAN and discuss his fourth volume of his on-going, multi-volume biography "The Years of Lyndon Johnson."

C-SPAN spoke with Mr. Caro in 2008 in his New York City office about his writing style and his latest work on the LBJ installment.  He also spoke to the Book TV  at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library on May 13, 2003.

After leaving a career as a journalist, Mr. Caro gained national recognition in 1974 with his first book of New York political boss Robert Moses.  He then began work on a multi-volume biography of President Lyndon Johnson, picking up a Pulitzer in 2003 for the most recent volume, Master of the Senate. The fourth and fifth volume in the series will deal with Johnson's Vice Presidency and Presidency.

He has researched the life of the former president using the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library's papers for 26 years and described to Book TV how he has used the Johnson papers in his multi-volume biography, "The Years of Lyndon Johnson."

Watch C-SPAN's discussion with Robert Caro on the release of his fourth volume The Passage of Power, on C-SPAN's Q&A on Sunday, May 6th at 8pm ET and 11pm ET.

Updated: Friday, April 13, 2012 at 2:41pm (ET)

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