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This is the second long-form piece about Caro and his new book I've seen this week (the other is in tomorrow's New York Times magazine - http://www.nytimes.com/
by noahnoahnoah 14y ago
This is the second long-form piece about Caro and his new book I've seen this week (the other is in tomorrow's New York Times magazine - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/robert-caros-big-dig.html?hpw http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/robert-caros-big-...). Interesting how similar the facts they tell are, but the angle is very different in each.
Great PR by his agent no doubt, but both enjoyable reads -- well worth the time to read them both.
- gruseom 14y agoThank you for supplying this second link - I read it too and enjoyed it very much. From these pieces, Caro reminds me a little of Joseph Frank, who finished his great five-volume biography of Dostoevsky when he was in his 90s and whom I got to study with for a little while.
- keithpeter 14y agohttp://www.robertacaro.com/NYer.html http://www.robertacaro.com/NYer.html A sample of Caro's writing. His work was unknown to me before reading the links here.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoThe LBJ bios are among my favorite political bios ever. Classics of American History.