LIBRARY NOTES
 
Robert Caro
Robert Moses and the Making of New York
Tuesday, November 18, 1997 at 6:30 PM
Temple Israel, 112 East 75th Street
Robert A. Caro, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, specializes in writing about powerful political figures. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) won several awards in addition to the Pulitzer, including the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians and the Washington Monthly Political Book Award. Both volumes of Mr. Caro's definitive biography,
The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982) and Means of Ascent (1990), also have won many awards. Currently he is writing the third volume of his Johnson opus, which has been hailed as the "summit of American historical writing."
Mr. Caro's talk will explore the timely topic of New York City, in honor of the centennial anniversary of its consolidation in 1898 and the upcoming WNET documentary New York.
Robert Caro serves as a trustee of The New York Society Library.
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