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Caro’s own life has been an epic of human endeavor, a tale of obsession…Writing truth to power takes time.

EVAN THOMAS, THE WASHINGTON POST

Robert Caro on the Art of Biography

I was never interested in writing biographies merely to tell the lives of famous men. From the first time I thought of becoming a biographer

“Anatomy of a $9 Burglary” is among Caro’s best early writing. When police arrested a criminal, all signs indicated a simple case of burglar

Perhaps Caro’s most influential work during his years at Newsday was the investigative series, “Misery Acres,” a withering expose of fraud.

A lack of basic infrastructure forced a 74‒year-old widow to carry a water bucket a mile-and-a-half back to her tiny shack.

A special Senate committee has opened an investigation into these “Misery Acres” that take dollars from people who cannot afford it.