Robert Caro has spent thirty-eight years writing the biography of one man.

Re:Robert Caro has spent thirty-eight years writing the biog... by noahnoahnoah on Saturday April 14, 2012 @05:07PM (#3841989)

This is the second long-form piece about Caro and his new book I've seen this week (the other is in tomorrow's New York Times magazine - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/robert-caros-big-...). Interesting how similar the facts they tell are, but the angle is very different in each.

Great PR by his agent no doubt, but both enjoyable reads -- well worth the time to read them both.

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Re:Robert Caro has spent thirty-eight years writing the biog... by keithpeter on Saturday April 14, 2012 @05:59PM (#3842099)

http://www.robertacaro.com/NYer.html

A sample of Caro's writing. His work was unknown to me before reading the links here.

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Re:Robert Caro has spent thirty-eight years writing the biog... by waterlesscloud on Saturday April 14, 2012 @06:08PM (#3842116)

The LBJ bios are among my favorite political bios ever. Classics of American History.

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Re:Robert Caro has spent thirty-eight years writing the biog... by gruseom on Saturday April 14, 2012 @11:55PM (#3842692)

Thank you for supplying this second link - I read it too and enjoyed it very much.

From these pieces, Caro reminds me a little of Joseph Frank, who finished his great five-volume biography of Dostoevsky when he was in his 90s and whom I got to study with for a little while.

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