Centennial Moments
Robert Caro
Scholar and historian Robert Caro used Corporation support to write the Pulitzer-prize winning biography, The Power Broker , published by Knopf. The Corporation grant help transform Caro’s career; previously a working journalist, he went on to write a multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, which won Caro a second Pulitzer Prize, among other awards. Caro projects that a new volume, focusing on Johnson’s years as president, will be completed in the next few years. “Caro has a unique place among American political biographers,” according to the Boston Globe. “He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured.” In February 2010, President Barack Obama presented Caro with the National Humanities Medal.
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Charter of Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Constitution and Bylaws of Carnegie Corporation of New York
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