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Working : researching, interviewing, writing

Working : researching, interviewing, writing

Caro, Robert A., author.
Book 2019

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 felt confronting the vast holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas; his encounters with witnesses, including longtime residents wren...

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Authors, American 20th century Biography
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Caro, Robert A
Journalists United States Biography
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ISBN:
9780525656340
0525656340
Edition:
First edition
Description:
xxiv, 207 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf."
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
LCCN:
2018055999
Control Number:
2728162
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