Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
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"Explore a single individual deeply enough and truths about all individuals emerge." - Robert Caro
Robert Caro’s The Years of Lyndon Johnson are not only the best biographies I have ever read - and not only the best histories I have ever read. They're perhaps the best books I've ever read1. Below are the main lessons I got from these four volumes about power and powerful personalities2. If you know Robert Caro, please tell him that it would be the greatest honor to interview him on my podcast, The Lunar Society. As an NYA director to whom “hours made no difference, days made no difference, nights made no difference”; as an unknown twenty-eight-year-old running his first, seemingly…
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