John Williams at the New York
Times offers a piece on Robert Caro, the author of a series of books on the
late Lyndon Johnson.
An epic biography is nearing
its close. Slowly but surely.
Those waiting for the fifth
and final planned installment of Robert A. Caro’s award-winning life of Lyndon
B. Johnson might be both heartened and frustrated by the historian’s most
recent update on his progress.
In an interview recorded in
New York on May 18 with C-Span’s Brian Lamb (to air on the news channel
sometime this summer), Mr. Caro said he had most of the research and 400 typed
pages of the manuscript for the next book done. But “one more big thing”
remains, he said: A trip to Vietnam.
Mr. Caro lived in the Texas
Hill Country while writing and researching the first volume, which covered
Johnson’s youth.
“I’m not going to change the
way I do it just because I’m getting older,” Mr. Caro, 81, said of the process.
“I don’t know what the point would be of that.
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