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by noahnoahnoah 5175 days 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-...). 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.

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http://www.robertacaro.com/NYer.html

A sample of Caro's writing. His work was unknown to me before reading the links here.

The LBJ bios are among my favorite political bios ever. Classics of American History.
Thank 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.