His latest book, “Working”, is a collection of personal reminiscences. The journalist-cum-historian is conscious of time
Upper West Side, a stone’s throw from Central Park, Robert Caro is in his office, writing. America’s biographer-in-chief, now 83, is working on the fifth and final volume of “The Years of Lyndon Johnson”, his seminal portrait of the 36th president. Cork boards displaying the outline of this last instalment hang on an otherwise bare wall. In the next room, filing cabinets house hundreds of folders of notes and interviews.
, and of all the books he has yet to publish. How to make sure that the knowledge he has acquired outlives him? “If it’s not preserved between the covers of a book,” Mr Caro reckons, “it’s gone.” In the course of explaining his reporting and writing process—which involves many longhand drafts and a typewriter—he also charts his own extraordinary life.on Long Island when he began paying attention to Moses.
For example, when Mr Caro was searching for LBJ’s college classmates to decipher how he acquired the nickname “Bull” Johnson, he called up a Texan named Ella So Relle. Peeved at the intrusion, Ms So Relle asked why she was being asked so many questions when the answers were all printed in the college’s yearbook for 1930. Mr Caro looked for the pages she mentioned and found them to be torn out neatly from the binding.
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