Robert Caro: Performing Artist in New York

About Robert Caro

Robert Caro is an American journalist and author whose long-form reporting has shaped the modern political biography. He is best known for his work on New York power broker Robert Moses and for his multi-volume study of Lyndon B. Johnson, both built from exhaustive interviews and archival digging. At the DiMenna Children’s History Museum, he appears in connection with “Robert Caro’s The Power Broker at 50,” bringing that method into a live, public setting. His approach favors accumulation of detail over quick summary, letting systems of power emerge scene by scene.