Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
Written by Robert A. Caro
Narrated by Robert A. Caro
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About this audiobook
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and the Years of Lyndon Johnson series: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books.
For the first time in audiobook form, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses; what it felt like to begin discovering the extent of the political power Moses wielded; the combination of discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the vast holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas; his encounters with witnesses, including longtime residents wrenchingly displaced by the construction of Moses' Cross-Bronx Expressway and Lady Bird Johnson acknowledging the beauty and influence of one of LBJ's mistresses. He gratefully remembers how, after years of working in solitude, he found a writers' community at the New York Public Library and details the ways he goes about planning and composing his books.
Caro recalls the moments at which he came to understand that he wanted to write not just about the men who wielded power, but about the people and the politics that were shaped by that power. And he talks about the importance to him of the writing itself, of how he tries to infuse it with a sense of place and mood to bring characters and situations to life on the page. Taken together, these reminiscences — some previously published, some written expressly for this audiobook — bring into focus the passion, the wry self-deprecation, and the integrity with which this brilliant historian has always approached his work.
Robert A. Caro
Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that “exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.” In 2010, President Obama presented him with the National Humanities Medal. Caro lives in New York City with his wife, Ina, an historian and writer.
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Reviews for Working
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is an EXCELLENT book! It is so
interesting. I am delighted that I listened to the audio version, read by the author. At times he sounds like a detective - going to any length to get the story straight. And what a story teller he is! Listening to him talk about his work is inspiring.
I read The Power Broker many years ago and it was fascinating.
How lucky Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson were that Robert Caro found them and carved their stories into history.
Run, don’t walk, to get this book. You’ll be glad you did. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Robert Caro.talks shop, and, if you are a reader and admirer of his monumental biographies, this is. a peek into the magic. His reading itself is a pleasurei.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Caro's explanation of how he researches and writes about his subjects is fascinating
and unique...I recommend this book to anyone who likes to read. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A wonderful look behind the mind of Caro and what leads him to write the way he writes.