Biographer Robert Caro On Why It's Taking Decades To Fully Capture LBJ

Summary

Robert Caro is one of the nation’s preeminent biographers, known for meticulous research and taking his time with a subject. Indeed, he began his massive series The Years of Lyndon Johnson in 1977, but its final volume won't be published for at least another year. Meanwhile, Caro has written a memoir about how he does what he does, titled simply, Working. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Caro.