Robert Caro still writes first drafts longhand, finishing his books on a typewriter “to slow myself down, to make myself think”
Be it a Smith Corona typewriter or Chopin, thick pencils or a classic Buick, for the lionized biographer of LBJ, every thing has a purpose LEANING AGAINST the filing cabinets in his New York office, poring through a folio of interviews with a former Lyndon Johnson aide, presidential biographer Robert Caro wistfully recalled a time he could dial up a White House staffer and ask simply: “’When Johnson was talking to George Wallace, was he on the sofa or the rocking chair?’ And he’d have an answer.
The author of a four-, going-on-five-volume LBJ biography and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning opus “The Power Broker,” Mr. Caro, 83, just released “Working,” a memoir of...
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