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Category: Robert Caro

3 December 2020 Robert Caro

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

3 December 2020 Robert Caro

I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

3 December 2020 Robert Caro

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that’s written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.

3 December 2020 Robert Caro

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

3 December 2020 Robert Caro

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody’s switching to a computer. And I’m sort of laughed at.

3 December 2020 Robert Caro

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

3 December 2020 Robert Caro

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

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