could an AI write The Power Broker? - amy's blog
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In 2023, I read everything that Robert Caro has written.
In 2023, I read everything that Robert Caro has written. 4,961 pages and 2.6 million words of historical biographies, about two relatively niche figures, Robert Moses and Lyndon B Johnson. I read them for fun, on toilets and on trains, while working intensely on a startup. I say this (mostly) not to flex, but to illustrate how exceptional of a writer Caro must be to get me so engaged. And I’m not the only one: his thousand-page biographies are contemporary classics, widely read and loved by the general public. How does he do it? I admired his work so much that I tried to become a…
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