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In the Shack with Robert Caro
The Power Broker is turning 50. His final LBJ book is almost — well, he won’t say exactly, but he’s trying for 900 words a day.
Caro offers a wry smile and some coffee, and even before we sit down, we get into a conversation about Robert Moses and the Long Island landscape of potato farms and old estates that his highways converted into exurbs. It’s an airy house with a nice deck and a sparkling pool, but we’re headed out back, down a flagstone path, to converse in the considerably more humble writer’s shack in the woods where Caro is laboring away on the fifth and final Johnson book. A doc?”) The Society has his old Smith-Corona Electra 210 on display, but he’s hung on to a bunch of duplicate models and a large quantity of black cotton typewriter ribbons so he can continue to work the way he always has.
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