Charlie Rose Summer Series: Robert Caro

with Robert A. Caro
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on Friday, July 27, 2012 * * * * *

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Robert Caro, author "The Passage of Power" (05/28/12)

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Lyndon Johnson
JFK
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LBJ
Kennedy

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    1. EdR  07/31/2012 11:28 PM Report

      Wonderful conversation; great questions. I finished reading _The Passage of Power_ today . It is a great book---one of the all-time great American political biographies. The research is superb.

    2. efeinbe2  07/31/2012 07:39 PM Report

      Bravo Robert Caro.

    3. mariatv6117  07/31/2012 05:58 PM Report

      Congratulations, Robert Caro, on writing about LBJ, a phenomenal president!

    4. Gelles  07/31/2012 01:18 AM Report

      Robert Caro uses volume 4 of his biography of LBJ to tell us the details we would otherwise not know on how Johnson wanted to serve humanity, and did, when he succeeded JFK after our president was murdered in 1963.

      I promise to read this series because this interview was so perfect.

      We have yet to win the war on poverty, but we will. And Johnson and Caro deserve great credit on this account.

      What if we do not win? Perish the thought. Thirty years in the writing, this series will have that impact -- along with all the forces that Caro will explain and we will comprehend with effort and any luck.

      Caro has a voice like no other author. Charlie Rose sent that voice across the WW Web -- thanks Mr. Rose.

      ..... Now do something directly in the war on poverty: we need your help, as well as all that Johnson and Caro have done. It is a monumental war, and it will take all we put into it and then some.

      Caro is in inspiration. Thirty years! Thirty years well spent.

      What is political power? It's all that it's cracked up to be when when summoned to life for noble purpose. It's one more mystery we know when we see it -- but can't be defined in other words. It's one more force to be reckoned with and defeated when ignoble.

    5. Gelles  07/31/2012 12:59 AM Report

      Robert Caro uses volume 4 of his biography of LBJ to tell us the details we would otherwise not know on how Johnson wanted to serve humanity, and did, when he succeeded JFK after our president was murdered in 1963.

      I promise to read this series because this interview was so perfect.

      We have yet to win the war on poverty, but we will. And Johnson and Caro deserve great credit on this account.

      What if we do not win? Perish the thought. Thirty year in the writing, this series will have that impact -- along with all the forces that Caro will explain and we will comprehend with effort and any luck.

      Caro has a voice like no other author. Charlie Rose sent that voice across the WW Web -- thanks Mr. Rose. Now do something directly in the war on poverty: we need your help, as well as all that Johnson and Caro have done. It is a monumental war, and it will take we put into it and then some.

      Caro is in inspiration. Thirty years! Thirty years well spent.