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The Book Review

Robert Caro on How He Does It

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.03.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The acclaimed biographer of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses talks about his book “Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing.”

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0:00.0

Long time listeners of the podcast now that we never missed an episode, in fact until now,

0:10.4

we hadn't missed a single episode in 15 years.

0:13.9

So it was not an easy decision for us to suspend newer recordings of the podcast during the

0:18.4

COVID-19 crisis.

0:20.5

On the bright side, this is an opportunity for us to revisit some of our favorite episodes

0:25.0

from the archives.

0:26.4

This week, I bring to you a conversation from the not too distant past.

0:30.4

My interview with Robert Carro, author of The Power Broker, and the in-progress 5-volume

0:35.3

biography of Lyndon Johnson.

0:37.1

Bob and I spoke for our April 19th, 2019 podcast.

0:40.8

Bob came on to talk about his most recent book working, but I had just finished reading Master

0:45.2

of the Senate on my own, so we talked about everything.

0:48.5

Here's the episode.

0:55.0

Robert Carro joins us now.

0:56.6

He is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of many books.

1:00.2

His new book is called Working, researching, interviewing, and writing.

1:04.4

He is also the author of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Four Volumes of Them Thus Far, and

1:10.2

The Power Broker, Robert Moses, and the Fall of New York.

1:13.5

Bob, thanks so much for being here.

1:15.1

Pleasure to be here.

1:16.4

All right.

1:17.4

So, everyone has been greatly anticipating volume 5 of the years of Johnson, but instead you

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