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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 revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed booksFor the first time in his long career, 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 what it felt like 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 and Museum 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 loneliness, he found a writers community at the New York Public Library s Frederick Lewis Allen Room 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. 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Caro [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Turn every page Never assume anyhting Turn every goddamned pageAlan Hathaway, quoted by Robert Caro, Working Researching, Interviewing, WritingIt is weird to give a Caro book only four stars I ve read nearly everyhing except the big Whale The Power Broker Robert Moses and the Fall of New York he s writing and it seems nearly perfect He is one of my favorite writers of nonfiction ever His fanatacism to his craft is incredible His old school approach to research and writing is fantaTurn every page Never assume anyhting Turn every goddamned pageAlan Hathaway, quoted by Robert Caro, Working Researching, Interviewing, WritingIt is weird to give a Caro book...Robert Caro is one of my favorite biographers In this book Caro discusses his life but mostly provides information about how he and his wife do research about a topic The number one take away I got from this book is do not hurry, take your time and do it right He tells of hours in the archives, reading other people s work, newspaper articles, diaries and letters He also tells of traveling around doing interviews with people He spent years doing the research, gathering material, organizing i Robert Caro is one of my favorite biographers In this book Caro discusses his life but mostly provides information about how he and his wife do research about a topic The number one take away I got from this book is do not hurry, take your time and do it right He tells of hours in the archives, reading other people s work, newspaper articles, diaries and letters He also tells of traveling around doing interviews with people He spent years doing the research, gathering material, organizing it and then analyzing it The last thing he does is the writing.A lot of the information in this book can be found in his book On Power and in his other essays, etc I think he put together a collection of his shorter essays that discuss his writing and research methods and stuck them into this book For those of us who have read most of his writings, this is all old material except for some pearls provided about research I am tempted to give this only three stars but because it is Caro, I will give it fo...I think Caro is the greatest living writer out there may he live forever or until he finishes the last Johnson book A lot of material in this book is old stuff include in his other books or periodicals, but it s still wonderful to have it compiled in one place My favorite essay in this collection was the one about importance of place where he talks about how living in the Hill Country and experiencing the barrenness of the land helped him understand Johnson s superhuman vote counting abili I think Caro is the greatest living writer out there may he live forever or until he finishes the last Johnson book A lot of material in this book i...This is an odds and ends collection that functions as a brief Making Of documentary companion to his epic and essential Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson biographies The recent New Yorker excerpt is essentially anarrative alternate version, seamlessly combining information from many of the brief essays into one continuous story The book isscattered and not as elegant, but all the additional information is equally fascinating and a real tease for whatever extended memoir he s workin This is an odds and ends collection that functions as a brief Making Of documentary compa...Lately, a daily ritual for me is to offer a simple, silent supplication or prayer for two people of advanced age two people I have never met, and whom I am sure I never will meet I pray that they will live severalyears in good health with continued mental acuity Robert Caro is one of these people At age 83 he is still a few years from finishing the fifth ...What this does,than anything, is make you appreciate the craft that Caro puts into his work Most of these essays, interviews, and passages were printed elsewhere and have been collected into this short volume Some are original to the book, though He is also driven by a force which he isn t even able to identify to flesh out the lives, locales, and intricacies surrounding his subjects Caro has written five biographies, not including this slim volume Four are about Lyndon Johnson he s What this does,than anything, is make you appreciate the craft that Caro puts into his work Most of these essays, interviews, and passages were printed elsewhere and have been collected into ...For Caro, this is a remarkably thin book He said he wrote it to get down few thoughts on his researching and writing process before he died The truth is, about half the book is made up of previously published magazine articles, many of which themselves trod over territory from his books, and much of the remainder was just published in a New Yorker article I imagine the impetus for the book might have been financial.Still, Caro is a wonderful writer, and it s fascinating to get a glimpse of hi For Caro, this is a remarkably thin book He said he wrote it to get down few thoughts on his researching and writing process before he died The truth is, about half the book is made up of pr...The value here isn t in just the words It s in Caro s voice That s New York.I was so excited for this book So looking forward to readingof Caro s beautiful, distinctive writing He intends to write a Caro length memoir and candidly acknowledges that this short book exists in case he runs out of time I could have read another thousand pages of his methods and anecdotes I m a working historian I loved his stories of finding buried treasure, convincing a reluctant source to talk, the feeling you get when you figure out how to communicate something to your audie I was so excited for this book So looking forward to readingof Caro s beautiful, distinctive writing He intends to write a Caro length me...I have grown up reading Robert Caro This is both a great introduction to Caro and a great extra if you ve read the Moses and Johnson bios.He does a great job of explaining how he works Fascinating and fun.

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  • English
  • 18 October 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 240 pages
  • 0525656340
  • Robert A. Caro
  • Working