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    Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

    Robert A Caro

    ‘One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer’ (Sunday Times) offers a riveting account of his working life and the art and craft of non-fiction

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    The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

    Robert A. Caro

    Moses is pictured as idealist reformer and political manipulator as his rise to power and eventual domination of New York State politics is documented.

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    The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

    Robert A. Caro

    The award-winning, bestselling biography that traces Lyndon Johnson’s rise tonational prominence.

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    Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III

    Robert A. Caro

    National Book Award winner. The long-awaited third volume in Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert A. Caro’s award-winning epic biography of Lyndon Johnson. Like the previous two volumes, it has become a national…

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    The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

    Robert A. Caro

    The fourth volume in Caro’s monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson follows Johnson through his volatile relationship with John and Robert Kennedy in the fight for the 1960 Democratic nomination for…

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    Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II

    Robert A. Caro

    With the same unique narrative passion and rich detail characterizing all of Caro’s writing, Means Of Ascent reveals Lyndon Johnson’s almost mythic personality–half and icily calculating. Illustrated.

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    The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

    Robert A Caro

    Tells the story of Robert Moses, the single most powerful man in New York for almost half a century and the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever…

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    The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

    Robert A Caro

    Tells the story of Robert Moses, the single most powerful man in New York for almost half a century and the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever…

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    Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 2)

    Robert A Caro

    Caro’s legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power, political genius and the shaping of twentieth-century America. In this second instalment…

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    The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 4)

    Robert A Caro

    Provides a perspective on Kennedy’s assassination from Johnson’s viewpoint, and penetrates deep into what it was like for him to assume a position of such power at a time of…

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    The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

    Robert A. Caro

    Moses is pictured as idealist reformer, and political manipulator as his rise to power and eventual domination of New York State politics is documented.

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    The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

    Robert A. Caro

    The award-winning, bestselling biography that traces Lyndon Johnson’s rise tonational prominence.

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    Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III

    Robert A. Caro

    Describes the future president’s career in the U.S. Senate, from breaking the southern control of Capitol Hill to passing the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.

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    Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 3)

    Robert A Caro

    Caro shows how Johnson’s brilliance, charm and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and most powerful Majority Leader in history and how he used his incomparable legislative genius -…

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    The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 1)

    Robert A Caro

    Charts the boyhood of Johnson through the depression years to his debut as congressman and his defeat in his first race for the Senate. The first of a four-volume biography…

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    Working

    Robert A. Caro

    [An] autobiography [and work] about [the] author’s processes of researching, interviewing, and writing his books. –

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    Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II

    Robert A. Caro

    With the same unique narrative passion and rich detail characterizing all of Caro’s writing, Means Of Ascent reveals Lyndon Johnson’s almost mythic personality–half and icily calculating. Illustrated.

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    The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV

    Robert A. Caro

    The fourth volume in Caro’s monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson follows Johnson through his volatile relationship with John and Robert Kennedy in the fight for the 1960 Democratic nomination for…

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    Working

    Robert A. Caro

    Short autobiography about author’s processes of researching, interviewing, and writing his books –

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    Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Nietzsche regarded ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ as his most important work, and it has had an enormous influence on subsequent culture. This edition offers a new translation, which captures the text’s…

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    Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Nietzsche regarded ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ as his most important work, and it has had an enormous influence on subsequent culture. This edition offers a new translation, which captures the text’s…

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    Devolution and Aging Policy

    Francis G Caro,Robert Morris *Deceased*

    Experts from fields including economics, gerontology, and political science contribute advice for making positive changes in aging policies through state, local, and private initiatives. Their ideas address the impact on…

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    Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans

    Leslie A. Wade,Robin Roberts,Frank de Caro

    Examines six unique, offbeat, Downtown celebrations. Using ethnography, folklore, cultural, and performance studies, the authors analyse new Mardi Gras’s connection to traditional Mardi Gras. The narrative of each krewe’s development…

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    Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans

    Leslie A. Wade,Robin Roberts,Frank de Caro

    Examines six unique, offbeat, Downtown celebrations. Using ethnography, folklore, cultural, and performance studies, the authors analyse new Mardi Gras’s connection to traditional Mardi Gras. The narrative of each krewe’s development…

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