Working by Robert A Caro

Working by Robert A Caro

"One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer." --The Sunday Times (London)

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books.

Now in paperback, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses and to begin discovering the extent of the political power Moses wielded; the combination of discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the vast holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas; his encounters with witnesses, including longtime residents wrenchingly displaced by the construction of Moses' Cross-Bronx Expressway and Lady Bird Johnson acknowledging the beauty and influence of one of LBJ's mistresses. He gratefully remembers how, after years of working in solitude, he found a writers' community at the New York Public Library, and details the ways he goes about planning and composing his books.

Caro recalls the moments at which he came to understand that he wanted to write not just about the men who wielded power but about the people and the politics that were shaped by that power. And he talks about the importance to him of the writing itself, of how he tries to infuse it with a sense of place and mood to bring characters and situations to life on the page. Taken together, these reminiscences--some previously published, some written expressly for this book--bring into focus the passion, the wry self-deprecation, and the integrity with which this brilliant historian has always approached his work.

To understand more about Robert Caro's research, see the Sony Pictures Classic documentary "Turn Every Page."

ROBERT A. BROWN is well known for his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. CARO has won the Pulitzer Prize twice, the National Book Award twice, the National Book Critics Circle Award three times, and nearly every other major literary award, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal in Biography and the Francis Parkman Prize. Caro received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2010. Caro graduated from Princeton, went on to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow, and worked for Newsday for six years as an investigative writer. He lives in New York City with his writer wife, Ina Caro, where he is working on the fifth and final volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson.

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ISBN 13	9780593081914
ISBN 10	0593081919
Title	Working
Author	Robert A Caro
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage
Year published	2020-01-07
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.