Working : researching, interviewing, writing /
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work. 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...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- "Turn every page"
- ROBERT MOSES. The city-shaper ; Carbon footprint ; Sanctum sanctorum for writers
- LYNDON JOHNSON. LBJA ; "Why can't you do a biography of Napoleon?" ; INTERVIEWING. "I lied under oath": Luis Salas ; "Hell, no, he's not dead": Vernon Whiteside ; "It's all there in black and white": Ella So Relle ; "I wanted to be a citizen": Margaret and David Frost ; "My eyes were just out on stems": Lady Bird Johnson ; Tricks of the trade
- A sense of place
- Two songs
- The Paris Review interview.