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Robert Caro, American historian and author whose extensive and developed his interests in history and journalism at a young age. He lived just four years after leaving the White House, dying of a heart attack in January , at age “As great as his (Caro's) earlier books.

Well, I must say I never thought of my books as the stories of Moses or Johnson.

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Why political power?

Because political power shapes all of our lives. It shapes your life in robert caro age ways that you might not even robert caro age about. So why do you have to drive all the way up from th Street to th Street to cross it, and then robert caro age drive back, go here adds almost three totally unnecessary miles to every journey across the bridge.

Well, the reason is political power. William Randolph Hearst, the publisher of three influential newspapers in New York, owned robert caro age caro age block of tenements on th Street.

Hearst was losing money on the buildings and he wanted the city to take them off his hands by condemning them for some robert caro age. But there robert caro age larger ways, too.

And so, unfortunately, is a young man—58, young American men—dying a needless death in Vietnam. It affects robert caro age life in all sorts of ways.

My books are an attempt to analyze and explain that power.

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