Q&A: Robert Caro - Part 1

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @johnvollmerhausen8915
    @johnvollmerhausen8915 22 дня назад +1

    Robert Caro is a treasure, 89 years old and still working on book 5, may God preserve him up to and beyond the completion of this work!

  • @veritas6335
    @veritas6335 2 года назад +9

    Superb researcher and writer. We are in his debt for his dedication to the pursuit of truth and the study of power.

  • @sheilakoff8590
    @sheilakoff8590 5 месяцев назад +3

    Best interviewer on the Internet. Brian lamb always does the homework. Thank you. ❤

  • @bzfgt1
    @bzfgt1 8 лет назад +102

    If Caro wrote every history book I'd be an expert.

    • @tommyrauk8205
      @tommyrauk8205 5 лет назад +6

      Caro's LBJ bio rivals and maybe exceeds William Manchester's Churchill.

    • @vernpascal1531
      @vernpascal1531 4 года назад +6

      @@tommyrauk8205 -There's a lot of really bad stuff on LBJ that he doesn't touch.

    • @baberRuth
      @baberRuth Год назад

      @@vernpascal1531 Ike really pushed LBJ into ramping up on Nam & sticking to it. LBJ was always consulting him.

    • @kerykilgannon1153
      @kerykilgannon1153 6 месяцев назад

      @@tommyrauk8205

  • @dannyhughes4889
    @dannyhughes4889 3 года назад +10

    A very VERY special individual...many more like him are needed in the service of truth.

  • @corcaighrebel
    @corcaighrebel 11 лет назад +25

    First came across Robert Caro in a documentary on New York, excellent speaker, very insightful.

  • @tommyodonovan3883
    @tommyodonovan3883 7 лет назад +33

    This man is brilliant, Robert Caro.

    • @ctrlaltdelmeir184
      @ctrlaltdelmeir184 3 года назад +2

      Definitely one of the most detailed collections of books ever read.

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 8 месяцев назад +1

      And seemingly biased with information interpretation.

  • @pmagnier11
    @pmagnier11 12 лет назад +12

    Definitely a New Yoik accent. This series of books is as good as biography gets. The first two are my favourites.

  • @pototo1
    @pototo1 3 года назад +6

    Thank you for putting this on RUclips. Please add more similar programs.

  • @richardkoenigsberg4271
    @richardkoenigsberg4271 8 лет назад +28

    Great author, great interviewer. Serious television. So informative.

    • @allend2749
      @allend2749 7 лет назад

      exactly how i feel. and no stupid sexy dolled up females doing the interviewing!

  • @williamwoody7607
    @williamwoody7607 Год назад +4

    I can’t remember Brian Lamb ever speaking as laterally equal to any other author. He clearly offers Caro more freedom to expose his points.
    He clearly holds Caro in tremendous esteem.

  • @lindastone6039
    @lindastone6039 6 лет назад +18

    I like this man Robert Caro and his
    methodology he sees both sides of
    this man.

  • @paulbrasier372
    @paulbrasier372 6 лет назад +12

    What a great Author to be trusted with incredible moment in time.

  • @MAR1962
    @MAR1962 12 лет назад +28

    I love all of the books, but Means of Ascent holds the most surprises, because the 1948 Texas Senate election had kind of receded into obscurity. Even knowing who won, the story was suspenseful. Caro is the master.

    • @arnavbhagwat4232
      @arnavbhagwat4232 10 дней назад +1

      The books are strangely motivating too. I'm currently reading Path To Power while working as a graduate assistant at a university(i also study there) where I often interact with students. It was very touching about how LBJ really cared for his Mexican students and made sure they received a quality education.

  • @danielrobinson9270
    @danielrobinson9270 7 лет назад +9

    Great interview. Always found LBJ and the Kennedy's relationship and stories very interesting. Having not been born until the mid 70"s ...the Kennedy and LBJ era in comparison to today's politics are very different and appears more authentic in terms of the workings of government. Great book!

  • @clareomarfran
    @clareomarfran 2 года назад +13

    Robert Caro is a national treasure.

  • @nujac321
    @nujac321 12 лет назад +10

    Agreed. I hope he lives to finish the final volume.

  • @paulblack8887
    @paulblack8887 4 года назад +2

    So considerate in the interview, insightful and weaves such great narratives in print and speech.

  • @paulsummers2640
    @paulsummers2640 Год назад +2

    What a wonderful man.

  • @ronnestman4696
    @ronnestman4696 5 лет назад +3

    Bob Caro is an excellent interview. I’m very impressed with all his work. Great video

  • @MAR1962
    @MAR1962 12 лет назад +7

    The Years of Lyndon Johnson is as big an epic as anything written by Homer. Reading "Passage to Power" now and its a worthy successor to the first three volumes.

  • @jamesm.3967
    @jamesm.3967 2 года назад +5

    Brian Lamb brought us CSPAN. So good, bland but effective. Caro is excellent as well.

  • @luisvaldes1568
    @luisvaldes1568 2 года назад

    Reading Mr. Caro's first LBJ book off and on in 2022. Amazing. I have been fascinated by LBJ and Presidential history since I was a little kid.

  • @Frip36
    @Frip36 2 года назад +2

    Caro wants to see if interviewer has thoughts and opinions. Or if he just asks random questions. 36:40

  • @ImranSahir1
    @ImranSahir1 4 года назад +5

    I must be thankful to Burns brothers; it is due to their documentaries that I came to know about Robert Caro and Shelby Foote. Two of the greatest storytellers I've known.

    • @ctrlaltdelmeir184
      @ctrlaltdelmeir184 3 года назад

      Salaam, bro. Do you think Pakistan will ever have their own LBJ?

    • @stevenwolfe7101
      @stevenwolfe7101 2 года назад

      I was surprised to see that no one referred to Caro's first book, a biography of Robert Moses, a very powerful man in NYC politics and the man who was responsible for many of the highways in and around New York and its environs. It is "The Power Broker". LBJ had his own way of getting things done. My jury on him is still out because: (1) on the one hand he was a motive force behind ending segregation in the South, something only a Southerner could do. Well, at least the civil rights legislation was put in place. But (2) he persisted in having the war in Vietnam go on and lying about it to keep it going. Perhaps this was the price he had to pay to get his friends to go along with his civil rights program.

    • @makthnife
      @makthnife 4 месяца назад

      @@stevenwolfe7101Fair to say, methinks, that it’s all just about power aka $. The Civil Rights Act was JFK all the way but for political reasons, mostly. With the war, follow the money. I also think a more interesting question is about Nixon and the war. But apples and clam chowder on him ;-)

  • @SK-cb9yu
    @SK-cb9yu Год назад +1

    I like Robert Caro and tremendously respect his work as a researcher and writer (not that he could give a rat's butt what I think), but Bobby Kennedy wasn't born in 1929--he was born in 1925.

  • @jameshenshall4232
    @jameshenshall4232 5 лет назад +1

    Happy Birthday, Mr Caro.

  • @UrbaNSpiel
    @UrbaNSpiel 4 месяца назад

    Will read one of these soon. Got the first book I think.

  • @robertpolityka8464
    @robertpolityka8464 7 месяцев назад

    Excellent biography.

  • @michaelplummer395
    @michaelplummer395 Год назад +1

    where is the last book?? i want to know more about Walter Jenkins i believe if he had stayed on he may have kept Johnson out of Vietnam. I also want to hear all about Cousin Oreal Hugh Sidey has best first hand account of personal friendship with LBJ

  • @gsilcoful
    @gsilcoful 4 года назад

    Thank you.

  • @TopolskiOpinion
    @TopolskiOpinion 6 месяцев назад

    What is the name of the interviewer? I grew up watching this guy, always thought he was outstanding but never knew his name.

  • @lauraberendson4032
    @lauraberendson4032 Год назад +2

    I like Brian Lamb but I hate when he interrupts the person he's interviewing because it completely breaks the flow and I as a listener and losing track and the speaker completely loses traction.

  • @t44e6
    @t44e6 3 года назад

    What about the Civil Rights Act Of 1957?

  • @warrenpeece1726
    @warrenpeece1726 8 лет назад +5

    I love all the books, except the last. He did not reference Malcom Wallace.

    • @luizverdecanna8023
      @luizverdecanna8023 3 года назад +4

      LBJ´s hit buddy, Caro also forgot to mention that LBJ
      was the main articulater of JFK assassination. Malcom Wallace pink finger digital print was in a box at 6th floor at TSBD then asked FBI to identify, took 18 months and finally they said it was not his finger. Caro of course won´t talk about that.

  • @pfflyer3381
    @pfflyer3381 Год назад +1

    36:10 master politician.., master salesman/ bully, more like it.

  • @S_Edward_Burns_ArtsEditor
    @S_Edward_Burns_ArtsEditor Год назад

    My thanks.

  • @ricdavid7476
    @ricdavid7476 3 года назад +3

    what point in this do they talk about when Johnson had Kennedy killed?

  • @denniscassley9992
    @denniscassley9992 9 лет назад +11

    QUICK QUESTION: Do any of Caro's books deal with LBJ's corruption?

    • @jonshay
      @jonshay 8 лет назад +6

      highly recommend these books. They basically deal with all things LBJ, including the unsavory aspects.

    • @denniscassley9992
      @denniscassley9992 8 лет назад +1

      jonshay Is it true that none mentions Billy Sol Estes, Malcolm Wallace, or Kinser?

    • @jonshay
      @jonshay 8 лет назад

      +Dennis Cassley Don't recall.

    • @JohnPaulBrandt57
      @JohnPaulBrandt57 8 лет назад +1

      Of course not. I'll do it eventually but of course it will never be published in this free country.

    • @TexasMan77
      @TexasMan77 8 лет назад +3

      Yes, means of ascent, the second of 4 books. It's exclusively about his stealing of the 1948 senatorial race from former Texas governor and legend Coke Stevenson.

  • @0907oliv
    @0907oliv 11 лет назад +2

    Actually, what I heard is that while RFK was on the Senate Rackets Committee, when LBJ would speak to him, LBJ would call him Sonny Boy.

    • @michaelplummer395
      @michaelplummer395 Год назад

      and rfk joked about johnson behind his back calling him rufus cornpone and kennedy was shocked in 64 that HE wasn’t selected for VP

  • @skybart
    @skybart 12 лет назад +2

    Is that a typical New York accent-- Caro's?

    • @tommyodonovan3883
      @tommyodonovan3883 7 лет назад +4

      skybart
      It's an upper middle class Jewish intellectual N.Y. accent.

    • @SOXLUVER777
      @SOXLUVER777 5 лет назад +1

      It sounds like Queens.

    • @LazlosPlane
      @LazlosPlane 4 года назад +2

      @@tommyodonovan3883 Not at all Upper middle class, but yes, lots of "Jewish" influences. His is more a mix. He has worked hard, it would seem, to rid himself of his original accent.

    • @tommyodonovan3883
      @tommyodonovan3883 4 года назад +2

      @@LazlosPlane I'm a Newfy from Bay Vert ('65-'70), when I got off the Island even the Herr'n Chockers (NB) couldn't understand a word I said.
      I'm 55yro the Canucks have near kicked the Newfy Accent out of me.
      *But... twas all in good fun!*

  • @lukesmith1818
    @lukesmith1818 2 года назад

    Reedy sounds like principal skinner

  • @guydean1224
    @guydean1224 2 года назад +1

    Landslide Linden!

  • @worphjordan
    @worphjordan 11 лет назад +1

    took me a while to realize the background is fake LOL

  • @0907oliv
    @0907oliv 11 лет назад +1

    It is widely believed that only Johnson would have done a War on Poverty. But in fact, JFK, having in 1963 read Michael Harrington's book, The Other America; as well as influenced by an earlier campaign trip's through Appalachia, JFK was planning what was called an "anti-poverty program."

    • @andthe2881
      @andthe2881 7 лет назад +5

      0907oliv jfk couldn't get legislation through. That was jfk whole problem he ignored lbj's advice.

    • @makthnife
      @makthnife 4 месяца назад

      The Appalachia trip was RFK. There’s footage of it.

  • @silvergalaxie
    @silvergalaxie 3 года назад +1

    all the research and yet wrong about alot.

  • @huntingthekaiser6490
    @huntingthekaiser6490 6 лет назад +3

    Hmmmm. I remember Lyndon Johnson. As I remember, the biggest reason that he didn't run for president was that few people wanted him. He was irritating, and his overblown Texan image full of b.s. There were others in the field more interesting. Mr. Caro says it was because he was afraid to fail. Yeah. The country as a whole didn't want him. Ruefully, it took the assassination to overcome negative feelings towards him. That from someone who was around at the time.

  • @jimmyconway3844
    @jimmyconway3844 Год назад

    This Lyndon Johnson he was a real jerk

  • @LazlosPlane
    @LazlosPlane 4 года назад +2

    Pure fluff. Caro, for all his knowledge lies by omission.

  • @The4preston
    @The4preston 9 лет назад +1

    I liked Caro's earlier books, but The Passage of Power is very disappointing. The book is very repetitive, poorly organized and full of factual errors. For example, on page 281, Caro claims that Bobby Baker had his last meeting with Lyndon Johnson in October 1973, ten months after LBJ passed away. Plus almost a third of the book is about the Kennedys rather than LBJ - not new information, just drudging up old details from previous Kennedy bios. Like a lot of people, I'd been looking forward to the fifth and final book. But if it's as bad as this one I can live without it.

    • @virgildoc
      @virgildoc 7 лет назад +1

      which lbj book is best

    • @bangbangfan2184
      @bangbangfan2184 4 года назад +2

      @@virgildoc Master of The Senate. By a long distance. Truly an amazing book.

    • @ctrlaltdelmeir184
      @ctrlaltdelmeir184 3 года назад +1

      I am not sure about the other errors but on page 281 the meeting between Johnson and Baker happens in October 1972,

    • @The4preston
      @The4preston 3 года назад +1

      @@ctrlaltdelmeir184 That would make sense. Page 281 of the book places the meeting a year later, and messes up the date twice: "Baker visited him for a day at his ranch in October, 1973......When, in 1973, Walter Jenkins telephoned to invite him and his wife, Dorothy, to the ranch....."

    • @ctrlaltdelmeir184
      @ctrlaltdelmeir184 3 года назад +3

      @@The4preston We must have different copies ha, ha, mine says "Baker visited him for a day at his ranch in October, 1972, “We spoke not a word and communicated only through intermediaries...." I have a digital copy that I think was created in 2010.

  • @ACHPKP
    @ACHPKP 6 лет назад +1

    ............Spock.

  • @bernardotorres4659
    @bernardotorres4659 2 года назад

    What an absolutely unsmiling , dry , unsympathetic interviewer , Mr Lamb is .

    • @LightoftheMoon
      @LightoftheMoon 2 года назад +5

      Yes, exactly.
      Mr. Brian Lamb is a great example of the art of the impartial interviewer with excellent, probing questions.
      How much better the country would be if this skill was still taught across the land ~

    • @jeffreylc
      @jeffreylc 6 месяцев назад

      I think Lamb is great!