“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 book–bring into focus the passion, the wry self-deprecation, and the integrity with which this brilliant historian has always approached his work.”
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Power Broker” and “The Years of Lyndon Johnson”: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books.
This book should be a must for non fiction writers in order to learn the value of research and what the obsession with facts can mean to a talented writer and master researcher.
