Robert Caro (left) being interviewed by Brenda Wineapple at the New York Historical Society For Caro, his biographies must bring novelesque character-study nuance and prose, and a visceral sense-of-place, to his non-fiction works. That investigative-reporting imperative, shorthand for leaving no research stone unturned when working on a story, would go on to fill the pages of Caro’s definitive texts for decades to come - from his Pulitzer Prize-winning first book on iconoclastic urban planner Robert Moses to his, perhaps, final book on President Lyndon Baines Johnson that impatient Caro fans await. In a lesson that would inform his life’s work, Robert Caro’s editor at 1960s-era Newsday implored the author of The Power Broker and Master of the Senate to, “Turn every page.” Robert Caro
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