The great biographer on his monumental series on President Johnson, how he works – and why his task is important
In his new book, Working, the great American biographer Robert A Caro devotes an entire chapter to the importance of a sense of place, something he believes to be every bit as vital in the writing of history as in fiction. His readers must, he says, be able clearly to visualise all that is being described, to the degree that they may feel almost as if they were there at the time; only then will they understand the wider, more resonant points the author seeks to make.
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