Parul did a fantastic job here. I'd imagine there's a lot of pressure placed on someone even the slightest bit aware of how lucky she is to have the chance to interview someone like this. I'm happy to say that she did justice to the opportunity and a far better job than I and most fans of his ever could have done.
National treasure. Not sure we needed the well intentioned but ultimately pointless introductory questions from Ms.Sehgal. If you don't know that 'Bob' is an immersive researcher, a gifted stylist, doesn't write 'conventional' biographies and finally that LBJ runs to four volumes then you probably aren't watching this in the first place. Had she gone straight to the audience then perhaps there would have been time for more questions.
Parul Sehgal seems single-minded in her search for Virtue. She must have mentioned Virtue 100 times during this interview, as that which is Moral. Virtue and Morality. Well, Caro likely never thought in these terms; he looked for that which is behind appearances. He looked for character, and virtue and morality aren't what Robert Moses and LBJ were about. To the extent that Johnson sought to redress the inherent racism in America, he was moral. Basically, Caro says, Johnson was Driven, desperate to not fail.
Gotta love how the questions are all from white people, and the last one asks a question about the powerless, and then right before the only black guy gets to ask a question they're out of time.
The US is one of the few countries where race is still such a big issue. I understand the dark history of the country in this respect. But from the point of view of another country like mine you have no idea how ridiculous it looks when you manage to make every little thing such as this about race. Get over it already.
I take that he is old school and excludes the dirty truth about LBJ? I wonder if he excluded the whole other half of the personality of LBJ after a plea from Lady Bird?
Not even close. Every Johnson biographer before Caro shrugged their shoulders about LBJ's seamier side, Caro is entirely dispassionate and honest about the real man behind the legend. He was the first to definitively prove, for example, that Johnson's Senate win in 1948 was entirely rigged in his favor; how Caro tracked down the one politico who knew the truth is a fascinating story. See: The Box 13 Scandal.
@@cantweallgetalong I'd say you have to take the entire work, all four volumes, into account when judging the subject and the author. I don't know Caro's heart, but I read all four books and know a great deal about Caro's methods, and he's never once struck me as a member of an obfuscating Good Old Boy network that would dilute the real man because of pressures from any single person, Lady Bird included. Caro is relentless in his pursuit of the real man. He once had a whole folder of stories and anecdotes about LBJ that he'd been told by Sam Houston Johnson, Lyndon's terribly angry and alcoholic brother. Stories and anecdotes that were hagiographic and painted a picture of a kinder, more noble, more historic figure. But Caro had a sense of Sam Houston and returned to Texas to interview him again, shortly before his death, and after a long, LONG conversation full of deathly stillness and long pauses, Sam admitted to making it all up. That's the kind of biographer and historian Caro is. He just wants the facts -- not "truth," that's too illusive and subjective -- so that his readers can decide for themselves.
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Let’s hope Mr. Caro can stay healthy for many more years.
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God bless that man. I adore his works.
I love the writings of De Caro and David McCullough on US history. Greetings from Argentina.
Parul did a fantastic job here. I'd imagine there's a lot of pressure placed on someone even the slightest bit aware of how lucky she is to have the chance to interview someone like this. I'm happy to say that she did justice to the opportunity and a far better job than I and most fans of his ever could have done.
am waiting for the final volume so i can start reading.
Such a great interview!
Was the sound recording equipment on Mars?
Volume is too low. Can’t here him even with the volume all the way up.
National treasure. Not sure we needed the well intentioned but ultimately pointless introductory questions from Ms.Sehgal. If you don't know that 'Bob' is an immersive researcher, a gifted stylist, doesn't write 'conventional' biographies and finally that LBJ runs to four volumes then you probably aren't watching this in the first place. Had she gone straight to the audience then perhaps there would have been time for more questions.
She is an outstanding interviewer
Hold on. Did she say last of the great 19th century biographers?
Hot interviewer.
Parul Sehgal seems single-minded in her search for Virtue. She must have mentioned Virtue 100 times during this interview, as that which is Moral. Virtue and Morality. Well, Caro likely never thought in these terms; he looked for that which is behind appearances. He looked for character, and virtue and morality aren't what Robert Moses and LBJ were about. To the extent that Johnson sought to redress the inherent racism in America, he was moral. Basically, Caro says, Johnson was Driven, desperate to not fail.
Debo ser familiar de Robert
Gotta love how the questions are all from white people, and the last one asks a question about the powerless, and then right before the only black guy gets to ask a question they're out of time.
Interesting interview. Some familiar gems along with some new tidbits.
obviously all white people must be racist
Well... reading this post was a waste of 7 seconds
Yeah, I'm sure they did that on purpose. That racist NYT crowd, eh?
The US is one of the few countries where race is still such a big issue. I understand the dark history of the country in this respect. But from the point of view of another country like mine you have no idea how ridiculous it looks when you manage to make every little thing such as this about race. Get over it already.
I take that he is old school and excludes the dirty truth about LBJ? I wonder if he excluded the whole other half of the personality of LBJ after a plea from Lady Bird?
Not even close. Every Johnson biographer before Caro shrugged their shoulders about LBJ's seamier side, Caro is entirely dispassionate and honest about the real man behind the legend. He was the first to definitively prove, for example, that Johnson's Senate win in 1948 was entirely rigged in his favor; how Caro tracked down the one politico who knew the truth is a fascinating story. See: The Box 13 Scandal.
@@CDMVIDZ Oh, this was just a bad example then?
@@cantweallgetalong I'd say you have to take the entire work, all four volumes, into account when judging the subject and the author. I don't know Caro's heart, but I read all four books and know a great deal about Caro's methods, and he's never once struck me as a member of an obfuscating Good Old Boy network that would dilute the real man because of pressures from any single person, Lady Bird included.
Caro is relentless in his pursuit of the real man. He once had a whole folder of stories and anecdotes about LBJ that he'd been told by Sam Houston Johnson, Lyndon's terribly angry and alcoholic brother. Stories and anecdotes that were hagiographic and painted a picture of a kinder, more noble, more historic figure. But Caro had a sense of Sam Houston and returned to Texas to interview him again, shortly before his death, and after a long, LONG conversation full of deathly stillness and long pauses, Sam admitted to making it all up. That's the kind of biographer and historian Caro is. He just wants the facts -- not "truth," that's too illusive and subjective -- so that his readers can decide for themselves.
Bob? She's calling him Bob?
That’s what a lot of interviewers call him.