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The path to power by robert caro5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() "Turn every goddam page." Caro is a living national treasure and that's as close to a superhero origin story as you're going to get in journalism. Turn every goddam page." He turned to some other papers on his desk, and after a while I got up and left. I responded with my usual savoir faire: "But I don't know anything about investigative reporting."Īlan looked at me for what I remember as a very long time. "From now on, you do investigative work." "I didn't know someone from Princeton could do digging like this," he said. He motioned for me to sit down, and went on reading. ![]() Here he writes about what his editor told him at an early stage in his career: In this absolutely fantastic piece he wrote for the latest issue of the New Yorker, Caro details some of his thoughts and strategies about writing and research that have served him well as he's pursued the topic of power for more than 50 years. Johnson - the first volume is called The Path to Power. Since 1976, Robert Caro has been writing a multi-volume biography of former US President Lyndon B. ![]()
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