#305 Robert Caro on power, poverty, ruthlessness, & obsession

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. But there are moments.

Of what were for me revelations. of insight That suddenly helped 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.

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