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Tag Archives: Robert Caro
Hey, Jeff Bezos: Welcome to the Amazone!
For several months now, online giant Amazon has been leaning on publishing pygmy Hachette in order to exact more, well, tribute for its bookselling. Improbably, Hachette has fought back, taking a hatchet to the Beast of Bezos. From Deadline Hollywood: Grisham, … Continue reading
NYT Needs a Subscription to TNR
Yesterday’s New York Times featured Sam Tanenhaus’ fulsome preview of the new Broadway production of “All the Way,” Robert Schenkkan’s play about Lyndon Johnson’s push for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Times piece calls it “[t]he story of a ruthless … Continue reading
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Tagged All the Way, Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston, Clay Risen, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, Master of the Senate, New York Times, Robert Caro, Robert Schenkkan, Sam Tanenhaus, The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
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WSJ’s Caro Di Tutti Cari Interview
Excellent Robert Caro interview in the Weekend Wall Street Journal: Robert Caro: Political Power—How to Get It and Use It Asked to define “political power”—the motif of his multivolume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson—historian Robert Caro falls silent. “I don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Robert Caro, The Passage of Power, Wall Street Journal, Weekend Interview
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