Nows and Forevers

Hard to overestimate how influential Robert A. Caro is in writing and journalism, “The Power Broker” and then his multivolume biographies of LBJ. I was fascinated too by his slim volume, “Working,” which contained a fair amount about how he reported and wrote.

My favorite piece of advice: “Turn every page.” It’s similar to a piece of advice my journalist father had for me, about how important it is to read all the way to the end in a document. It’s harder now given how little time journalists have — Dad and Robert A. Caro and frankly me began our careers in a different, Internet-less time — but I ignore that advice to my peril.

Great article about Caro in Smithsonian Magazine.

I’ll be in New York City in a few weeks and I’ll be going to that exhibit on Caro at the New York Historical Society, that’s for sure.