[superposeur]

Completely agree, there is a "texture" to Caro missing from all other biographies I've read (indeed, almost all other books). At once more vivid, detailed, complex, and rich, with first-hand access to new sources and interviews (something a biographer of a long-dead figure could never achieve). You feel as though you are getting the real scoop even for subjects you thought you understood.

After reading Caro, I'm left with the sad impression that there is probably a more vivid layer to most historical events at odds with the "cartoon" layer that has been passed down, but which we will never know because the singular figure of Caro was not there to chronicle it.