Through the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of The Power Broker and The Many years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply uncovering recollections about his encounters researching and writing his acclaimed books

For the first time in book form, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He identifies what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses; what it sensed like to begin discovering the level about Working of the politics power Moses wielded; the mix of discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the huge holdings from the Lyndon B. Johnson Collection in Austin, Tx; his encounters with witnesses, including longtime occupants wrenchingly displaced with the construction of Moses’ Cross-Bronx Expressway and Woman Bird Johnson acknowledging the beauty and influence of one of LBJ’s mistresses. He gratefully remembers how, after many years of employed in solitude, he found a authors’ community at the brand new York Community Library, and information the ways he goes about preparing and composing his books.

Caro recalls the occasions of which he came to recognize that he wanted to write not just about the men who wielded power but about the people as well as the politics which were formed by that power. And he discusses the importance to him from the writing itself, of how he attempts to infuse it with a feeling of place and mood to bring character types and situations to life on the web page. Taken together, these reminiscences–some previously published, some created expressly for this book–bring into concentrate the passion, the wry self-deprecation, as well as the integrity with which this brilliant historian has always approached his work.