Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

By Robert Caro

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

In this short book, biographer Robert Caro describes how he researched and wrote his works on Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson. He explains how he worked through archives, conducted interviews, and moved to the Texas Hill Country to understand Johnson's world. Caro also shares how he thinks about writing, power and the importance of a sense of place, offering a rare look at the methods behind his celebrated biographies.

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• Shane Parrish: “Finally, a glimpse into the mind of the great biographer Robert Caro. Caro is prolific. His 1,336 page biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, was crowned one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library.”