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Robert Caro

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2023-05-29

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2023-05-29

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1. “Biography should not just be a collection of facts. It's of real importance to enable the reader to see in his mind the places in which the book's facts are located. If a reader can visualize them for himself, then he may be able to understand things without the writer having to explain them. Seeing something for yourself always makes you understand it better. It took me a long time to understand this, that there are moments of what were for me revelations, of insights that suddenly help me understand. One of these moments had to do with his father, and with the effect on Lyndon Johnson of a mistake his father made because he didn't understand the land. You can't get very deep into Johnson's life without realizing that the central fact of his life was his relationship with his father. His brother Sam once said to me the most important thing for Lyndon was not to be like Daddy.”

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