His books are page turners. Is there a better compliment?

I studied Classics in college. When I read Caro, I cannot help but think that his work is -- in terms of quality, significance, and longevity -- comparable to that of Thucydides, Tacitus, Suetonius. Truly one of a kind.

I love Ron Chernow with a stack of 工商巨子 (Chinese translation of Titan The Life of John D. Rockefeller). That's a serious nerd flex!

"The Hope is the next book won't take quite as long" Here we are 22 years later and it still is not finished.

Wow this is great, the photos, the interviews of people around him. Thank you!

Newsday use to be a great newspaper.

Thanks Reed, for creating such a wonderful piece. Very well done.

KINDLE MAKE THE POWER BROKER AVAIABLE TO DOWNLOAD!

Ina is a smokeshow! Way to go Caro, what a legacy to carry.

I love Mr Caro's writing and work. He is an ethnographer, historian, biographer and storyteller all in one!!! I hope he will write the volume exploring LBJ and the Vietnam War. Also, Mr Caro and Mrs Caro were an extraordinarily good looking couple. See 11mins and 30 seconds. Thank you for your works on the LBJ series, Mr Caro. In particular, I love the story of LBJ's work for the people of the hill country of Texas. Finally,, I remember seeing somewhere here on KZbin an excerpt of you doing a book reading from one of your books on LBJ taking the oath of office on Air Force One, Dallas, 22 November.

I read the LBJ series twice. I Robert Caro put a lot in. I got a lot out. Some of the insights are very different to obtain anywhere else.

Very good piece, remarkable for a college senior. You got the essence of what he was trying to say.

Wonderful Man Wonderful Woman Wonderful Books

Thank you! Obrigado.

Can’t wait for the next one to be released! I love his books!!

Very interesting individual in American history.

There are few people who I admire more than Robert Caro. His intelligence, his insights, his dedication to his projects. It is rewarding to learn more about his childhood and early years.

A truly great American. Something that should be emphasized more is Rayburn's efforts on behalf of Black Americans. As a Southerner, he urged House members not to sign the "Southern Manifesto," which decried the passage of Civil Rights legislation. Additionally, as African countries were gaining independence, he had delegations from those countries come to Washington for instruction in establishing representative government. Interestingly, the great hero of Rayburn's life was Robert E. Lee.

A great man and a great woman. I’m about to start volume 4 of LBJ and look forward to seeing publication of volume 5 and maybe even 6!

I am related to this person I just wanted to get out there

... as a German Biologist - in our domesticated Techno Sphere - we have the selection of Psycho Paths to Hijack any System. From the Catholic Church to the Marxist Socialist Revolutionaries. To gain any higher position is a Selection of Psycho Paths. There is no way - as a humble, friendly, helping person - you make it anywhere. Impossible!

Stolen elections he says. 21:35.

Why does Caro compartmentalize the vast accounts of sociopath behavior of LBJ as though you can separate the most evil parts from other more noble accomplishments? He even conceals the vast majority of his criminal activities of bribes and kick backs and never touches the stories of what happened to anyone who dared to investigate his corruption.

Just finishing the power broker and this man is my new writing hero really looking forward to reading his other books

Does anyone know how I can write to him?

Get rid of the background noise

Thanks for sharing this. Really enjoyed watching it.

Very nice documentary. I’ve recently read Caro’s “Working,” which covers much of the same ground from his individual perspective, but it’s enlightening to see the old photos and hear from the people themselves, especially Gottlieb, whose ferocious intelligence leaps off the screen.

A fascinating character. I have not been able to find many recordings of him speaking, which is a shame.

Thank you for this. Looking forward to the last book on LBJ :)

Good job! I am reading the power broker now and was wondering about the man who could write so eloquently and so in-depth. Thanks for creating this!

Well done. I appreciated hearing from Ina Caro, Robert Gottleib, and Lynn Nesbitt.

I’m a little late but it’s almost scary what I’m hearing about Robert Moses

WTF - this was nothing but one long advertorial for this arsehole’s books. Should have been prefaced - “advertising.” What about the “insights” he claims to have made on POWER? NOTHING. New Yorker BULLSHIT. Nothing but a puff piece for self involved New Yorkers. By the end of the video, even their pretentious accents were making me want to puke.

Thank you for sharing this. A wonderful watch.

DUDE!!!! This is EXCELLENT!!! I hope this aired on some LI PBS station!

Fabulous!

I find some similarities between Robert Moses and Hyman Rickover.

A truly marvelous author. I admire him more than Dr.Moses. To me, Dr.Moses is a deity who misstepped into a unseemly world and easily manipulated it, but Mr. Caro as a real human being had to dedicate all he had for years.

Total Bullshit that he embraced the civil rights act. He and most of the south were die hard racists. Dont white wash history. That purposeful omission makes this entire segment totally suspect.

I am a new fan of Robert Caro's. Their marriage has endured a great deal. Ina is lovely.

Every paragraph and page is both absorbing and brilliant. Caro and his subjects (Johnson and Moses) are the stuff of history

That is an amazing woman to have by your side.

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why WHY is N.Y. THE INFRASTRUCTURAL TOILET BOWL OF AMERICA ?!NOW NOW in the INFRA-RED REALITY of the 21 th cen. a POST- BLOOMBERG SODOM last i heard the average speed of a TAXI in SODOM is a blazing 4.7 MPH ! I,m not going to talk about the DECREPIT SUBWAYS . I asked the syncophant at the WHOREHOUSE IN MORNINGSIDE HTS. LOOK when was the last time YOUR STUPID STATE even BUILT a major monumental BRIDGE ? NEED a hint ? GO back to the FIRST WORLD TOUR OF THE BEATLES AT SHEA STADIUM !!!WHEN i was in the ARMY this would be labeled CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE and DERELICTION OF DUTY . AGAIN no wonder N.Y. IS THE INFRASTRUCTURAL TOILET BOWL OF AMERICA. THE stupid state of N.Y. REBUFFED the greatest master builder and ENGINEERING GENIUS since the 18 th DYNASTY of PHARAONIC EGYPT :ROBERT MOSES culminating in JUNE 1973 when the ADULTEROUS blasphemous atrocious SPINELESS WHOREMONGERING back-stabbing autocratic PLUTOCRATIC GODLESS GOV NELSON ROCKEFELLER halted the construction of the crrrrrrrrrritically needed monumental PRESTIGIOUS PANORAMIC TRANSGENERATIONAL EPOCHAL SCENIC CIRCUMFERENTIAL COMMANDING SIX-MILE VISTA CRUISE across an INLAND SEA , THE MAGNIFICENT RYE OYSTER BAY BRIDGE . NOW a THEMATIC for the GERIATRIC WEASEL , robert caro :LONG ISLAND GOLD COAST TO TRASH COAST 2013 !ROCKY capitulated to his super rich well-heeled WEALTHY PROPERTIED COUNTRY-CLUB SET IN REGRESSIVE , RYE N.Y. OYSTER BAY and GREENWICH CONN. SURE he got some timely help from the JUDAS ISCARIOT GOV of the NUTMEG STATE , ABE RIBBICOLF assisted by a SODOMITE CONGRESSMAN from FAIRFIELD COUNTY stu mckinney and the QUISSLING SEC of the INTERIOR , UDALL and a SCUMBAG CONGRESSMAN from GLEN COVE , LESTER WOLFF. THIS JUDICIAL SLIME got a fake fraudulent foolhardy fabricated ASSININE SPECIOUS DECEPTIVE ECO WETLANDS BILL RAMRODDED thru congress in 1973 establishing the OYSTER BAY PRSERVES so now STOOGE NOW in the INFRA-RED REALITY of the 21 th CEN. the CANADIAN GEESE and MIGRATORY WATERFOWL have the OYSTER BAY PRESERVES all to themselves WHILST 10000000 MILLION MOTORISTS A MONTH ARE CONSIGNED TO LIVING HELL ! THE BOOTLESS BLASPHEMOUS BENIGHTED CAPITOL in ALBANY also REBUFFED the great MASTER BUILDER,s wise SAGACIOUS JUDICIOUSPROFUND PROPHETIC PLANS for the crrrrrrrrritically needed cross sound CIRCUMFERENTIAL WEALTH $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$CREATING BUSINESS $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$EXPANDING JOB $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$PRODUCING BRIDGE { NETFLICKS, HOUSE OF CARDS for a SUPERB DRAMATIZATION of this very poignant topic of a BRIDGE TO LONG ISLAND } RYE OYSTER BAY BRIDGE and instead SUCCUMBED to the SIREN SONGS of the POST MENOPASUAL SLUT who HATED CARS jane jacobs and the GERIATRIC WEASEL robert caro. NO WONDER the COFFERS of N.Y. are EMPTY. NO WONDER THE PROPERTY TAXES in NASAU-WESTCHESTER ARE THE WORST MOST ATROCIOUS IN AMERICA . NO WONDER THE BUSINESSES $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ INDUSTRIES-AIRCRAFT $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ have VANISHED from YOUR STUPID STATE EMPIRE ? EMPIRE STATE ? WHAT a colossal JOKE . EMPIRES NEED EMPIRE BUILDERS such as the greatest MASTER VBUILDER and ENGINEERING GENIUS since the `18TH DYNASTY of PHARAONIC EGYPT whom YOUR STUPID STATE REBUFFED IN that DECISIVE DETERMINING SERIOUS URGENT PRESSING YR of 1973 confirmed validated and CERTIFIED by the PUSSILLAMINOUS PIPSQUEAKS of the NASSAU COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION who also SUCCUMBED to the SIREN SONGS of the POST MENOPASUAL SLUT who HARED CARS jane jacobs and the WEASEL caro. REMEMBER our THEME :LONG ISLAND GOLD COAST TO TRASH COAST 2013 . THINK THINK of what a PRESTIGIOUS PANORAMIC SPECTACULAR SIX-MILE SCENTILLATING VISTA CRUISE across an INLAND SEA left over from the receding ICE AGES would have done for TOURISM $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ TOURISM $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for N.Y.S. and NEW ENG . ALLALL FORFEITED FOREVER BY YOUR STUPID STATE . THIS MONSTROUS MALFEAISANCE by N.Y. of this UNBUILT UNBUILT MAJOR MONUMENTAL EPOCHAL TRANSGENERATIONAL PRESTIGIOUS PANORAMIC RYE OYSTER BAY BRIDGE NOW because of this MONSTROUS MALFEAISANCE and CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE on the part of ALBANY STOOGE THERE IS NO EVACUATION ROUTE north-south for LONG ISLAND only the SCHELPP east-west 495 on the WORLDS LONGEST PARKING LOT TO SODOM , THE LONG ISLAND DISTRESSWAY ! NOW LONG ISLAND has DEGENERATED into a CRIMINALIZED consumerized commercialized CUL-de-SAC in the COSMOS ! ACTUALLY to BUILD anything SPEEDILY in the stupid state of N.Y. one must have a PENAL PURPOSE >ELECT A CUOMO and BUILD A JAIL IN SULLIVAN COUNTY ! NO no don,t mention what CONSEQUENTLY and the eventual AFTERMATH I95 BRONX to N.H. CONN. THE ACELDAMA !NOT familar with this ancient SEMITIC word ? THIS was the CURSED place where JUDAS ISCARIOT hung himself and his entrails gushed out on the CURSED ground .NO WONDER N.Y. IS THE INFRASTRUCTURAL TOILET BOWL OF AMERICA . THE BLOOD BESPATTERED I95 BRONX-N.H. CONN. ASK STATE SEN SUZI CREAMCHEESE OPPENHEIMER about the REBUILDING $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$DEBACLES on I287 maybe her friend the SLIME SHELDON SILVER could take a bow for the dilapidated dispicable degraded deteriorated disgraceful decrepit backed up congested UNSAFE UNSOUND UN$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$FUNDED ROADS CRUMBLING CORRODING COLLAPSING CONGESTED CRUSHING CAVING IN INTERSTATES and UNBUILT UNBUILT BRIDGES IN METRO N.Y.MISS PLASTIC who also works at the WHOREHOUSE IN MORNINGSIDE HTS. and makes LUCRATIVO $$$$$$$$ at the WHOREHOUSE told me to RELAX come on why be soo uptight about some crrrrritically needed CIRCUMFERENTIAL MONUMENTAL EPOCHAL TRANSGENERATIONAL PANORAMIC PRESTIGIOUS CROSS SOUND SPAN from over 48 yrs. ago ?GET OVER IT will YOU then she quipped flippantly , ITS HISTORY NOW ANYWAYS . REALLY , my mother had a spoiled , stink,in , flea -bitten poodle named SANDY ....

I'm just going to pile on a bit here, heap a bit more praise on this man's thoroughly and deeply praiseworthy work, and that of his deeply praiseworthy, obviously deeply loving wife-would that we all should enjoy such a marriage. Mr. Caro doesn't just write fine biography or fine nonfiction; he writes what I think one could genuinely call literature. _The Power Broker_ is far and away the most magisterial work of nonfiction literature that I have ever read, and it teaches not just about the exercising of power, but about the nature of human experience in the 20th century-and indeed (no small feat considering its date of publication), the 21st century. (And maybe it's my own parochial interest as a [transplanted from the South] New Yorker, but I hold it in even higher esteem than the Johnson books.) Compounding the achievement still further is that since the book's subtitle ("Robert Moses and the Fall of New York") was written, New York-great, incorrigible city that it is-has risen again to reclaim its rightful place at the pinnacle of metropolitan power and influence-but despite this, the book loses nothing by way of illustrative power or vision, and were I to teach a course that touched on the subject matter of the book, I would consider it a dereliction of duty not to assign it as absolutely required reading. I don't teach courses on that or any other subject, but I've still managed to talk a couple of people into reading the whole book; every one of them has thanked me for the recommendation. Thank you, Mr. Caro, for your magnificent work, and thank you to the filmmaker who put this piece together. I'm sure I speak for many in saying that I'm very glad to have it as part of the historical record.

Darling couple

I'm reading Volume one of LBJ. What a great writer: you can almost imagine you are there with Johnson: so much detail. Like writing used to be in the old days. There will never be another author like this. We can't spend that much time on anything.

America could have had progressive equal rights legislation in 1948 if Henry W Wallace been elected in 1948.

Those that can do. Those that can't, critique. Robert Caro is a dull crank whose writing has become irrelevant.