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At 83 legendary biographer Robert Caro has written a new book, and it's not his long-awaited final

volume on Lyndon Johnson. I'll ask him why this book now.

And another writer who probes the consequences of power on the psyche.

I speak with the Israeli author and psychologist Ayylet Gondagoshhen. Who is us?

Then America's forgotten poor rise up in the public,

a new movie by actor director and writer Emilio Esteves. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpore in New York.

Robert Caro is perhaps America's greatest living biographer.

His iconic books on the life of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Robert Moses, the man who

built New York in the last century, have won every major award while setting a new standard for insightful dynamic non-fiction writing.

Now at 83, Caro gives us a glimpse inside his own prodigious writing process.

In his new book Working, he shares his enormous drive to turn every page, talk to every

witness, uncover every fact in pursuit of historical truth.

But while working is a valuable look back at Caro's life work, it is frankly not the book his fans were hoping for, and that would be the long

awaited fifth and final volume of his series The Years of Lyndon Johnson.

Back in 2012, Carrow's last book left us dangling off the cliff just as Johnson becomes stuck

in the quagmire of the Vietnam War.

But Bob Caro has never rushed to finish a book and he's certainly not about to start now.

I've been talking to him here in New York trying to discover his quite unique working life.

Robert Caro, welcome back to the program.

Pleasure to be here.

It is always good to check in with you.

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