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“Talking to old women in the Texas Hill Country, I kept hearing, ‘We loved him because he brought the lights.’ I thought I knew what that meant. But I didn’t.”

Into the lives of the women of the isolated, impoverished Texas Hill Country—women stooped and old before their time from hauling up endless buckets of water from deep wells, doing the wash for their families and ironing it with the heavy chunks of hot metal they called “the sad irons,” all because they had no electricity—came a young congressman who promised them, “I’ll get it for you. You’ll look younger at forty than your mother did.” And, against long odds, he delivered on that promise.

For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro has won the Pulitzer Prize twice, the National Book Critics Circle Award three times, and virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the National Humanities Medal.

“Robert Caro is regarded by many as the greatest political biographer of the modern era.” —The Times (London)

Acclaim for The Path to Power, Volume I of The Years of Lyndon Johnson: 

• Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
• “Powerful and stirring... It is an overwhelming experience to read The Path to Power.” —The New York Times
• “Caro has a unique place among American political biographers. He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured.” —The Boston Sunday Globe
• “Caro has changed the art of political biography.” —Nicholas von Hoffman

Presented in collaboration with the Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society
with support from

LOCATION

The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024

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