Robert A. Caro, the master biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon Baines Johnson, gave the Second Annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture in 2009. Caro is the author of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York and The Years of Lyndon Johnson, whose first three published volumes are The Path to Power, Means of Ascent and Master of the Senate. Mr. Caro was then at work on the fourth volume, The Passage of Power, an examination of Johnson’s years in the White House, published to great acclaim in 2012. Caro’s biographies of Moses and Johnson have garnered numerous honors, incluing two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography, two National Book Critics Circle Awards for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best “exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.” The Boston Globe notes that “Caro has a unique place among American political biographers. He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured.” A graduate of Princeton University, Caro has been a Holtzbrinck Distinguished Visitor at The American Academy in Berlin, a Carnegie Fellow at Columbia University, and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.