Robert Caro
Robert Caro
Robert Allan Carois an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth30 October 1935
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
organized
I trained myself to be organized,
believe writing
Nobody believes this, but I write very fast,
trying mood chapters
I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter,
years ballet knows
I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
thinking president done
I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.
interest
My interest is in power. How power works.
believe corrupt-power power-corrupts
Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
book thinking ties
Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.
people president vietnam
Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.
new-york cities ballet
Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.
believe writing trying
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.
effort ballet experts
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
ballet want mystery
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
writing people appreciate
You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.