labohrertorium:


Asked to define “political power”—the motif of his multivolume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson—historian Robert Caro falls silent. “I don’t think anyone ever has asked me that,” he says.

Flattering interviewers. Call it, “The [Caro] Treatment.”

Forrealz, I’ve started to notice that he’s exceptionally friendly to all of his interviewers.

labohrertorium:

Asked to define “political power”—the motif of his multivolume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson—historian Robert Caro falls silent. “I don’t think anyone ever has asked me that,” he says.

Flattering interviewers. Call it, “The [Caro] Treatment.”

Forrealz, I’ve started to notice that he’s exceptionally friendly to all of his interviewers.