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Re:A Civil War over Semicolons: Biographer Robert Caro and H... by throw0101c on Sunday January 08, 2023 @12:48PM (#34301240)
> It is an excellent book but I think it could have an abridged version for the vast majority of people who don’t need the crazy amount of minutiae in it.

From the article:

> There would be other battles, like the one over a long section on the history of grass in Texas Hill Country, in the first volume of the Johnson biography, that Gottlieb wanted to cut—“a tremendous battle, an angry, angry battle” is how Caro, who ended up on the losing side, describes it.

Re:A Civil War over Semicolons: Biographer Robert Caro and H... by kingkawn on Sunday January 08, 2023 @01:18PM (#34301550)
It’s too bad, because the nature of that grass created the economic conditions of Johnson’s early life
Re:A Civil War over Semicolons: Biographer Robert Caro and H... by twoodfin on Sunday January 08, 2023 @07:24PM (#34305056)
As I recall, tons of this background on the geology and ecology of the Texas Hill Country is still in the book.