Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

A film by Lizzie Gottlieb

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Caro (Power Broker, The Years of Lyndon Johnson) and legendary editor Robert Gottlieb, have worked and fought together for 50 years, forging one of publishing’s most iconic and productive partnerships. Caro’s The Power Broker, edited by Gottlieb continues to be a bestseller after 48 years. Now 87, Caro is working to complete the fifth and final volume of his masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson; Gottlieb, 91, waits to edit it. The task of finishing their life’s work looms before them.

Directed by Gottlieb’s daughter, Lizzie Gottlieb, Turn Every Page explores their remarkable creative collaboration, including the behind-the-scenes drama of the making of Caro’s The Power Broker and the LBJ series. With humor and insight, this unique double portrait reveals the work habits, peculiarities and professional joys of these two ferocious intellects. It arrives at the culmination of a journey that has consumed both their lives and impacted generations of politicians, activists, writers and readers, and furthered our understanding of power and democracy.

Director

Lizzie Gottlieb

Producer

Joanne Nerenberg, Jen Small, Lizzie Gottlieb

Runtime

112 minutes

Rights Represented

Educational

Captions Available

English

Language

English

Press

“The documentary double portrait of writer Robert Caro and editor Robert Gottlieb bristles with ego and good-humored tension.”

- The Washington Post

“Would Caro’s books have been any less great if he and Gottlieb had never met? Who knows? But as this bracingly affectionate film makes clear, it was the gift of a lifetime for both that they did.”

- Christian Science Monitor

“This engrossing 2022 documentary chronicles the 50-year-and-counting collaboration between two literary lions…”

- Chicago Reader

Festival & Awards

Official Selection – TRIBECA

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Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

Turn Every Page explores the remarkable fifty-year relationship between two literary legends, writer Robert Caro (Power Broker, The Years of Lyndon Johnson) and his editor Robert Gottlieb, as they race to complete their life’s work.

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