Spring 2016 Friends Lecture Luncheon - An Afternoon with Robert A. Caro in Conversation with Frank Rich

Event Details

For donors at the Supporting Friend level ($100 )or higher

After Robert A. Caro received the National Humanities Medal in 2010, President Barack Obama said, “I think about Robert Caro and reading The Power Broker back when I was 22 years old and just being mesmerized, and I’m sure it helped to shape how I think about politics.”  Mr. Caro will discuss his connection to the Library, research and writing process and award-winning biographies with acclaimed essayist/columnist and writer Frank Rich.

Mr. Caro is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography for The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate. The Power Broker, hailed by Time magazine as one of the hundred top nonfiction books of all time, was written during his residency as a researcher the Library’s Allen Room in the early 1970s. 

This conversation will also bring to life the Library’s current pop-up display celebrating Mr. Caro’s work and residency, so order your tickets today. For $40 you will receive a ticket to the lecture and a boxed lunch

Enjoy a double discount - 20 % - on your purchases at the Lecture-Luncheon and on all purchases at The Library Shop for the entire day!

For ticket holders - The doors to the event will open at 12:15 p.m. The boxed lunch will be provided at 12:30 p.m. The lecture will begin at 1:00p.m.