I don't know if you heard Robert Caro today on Democracy Now, Not only did I
hear him on the program, but I then heard Part 2 of the interview which
happily downloaded to my stream this afternoon. I was so really impressed
and entranced by him. Interestingly, he was interviewed on the NYT Book
Review podcast and I barely listened. But anyway, I looked on BARD just now
and found the four volumes that he has so far completed of the Johnson
biography over a really long period of time. The first number is 1800
something, and the last is 7800 something, and all of them are huge. Power
Broker, which he talked about a lot in the second part of the interview, the
book about Robert Moses, isn't on BARD. Probably because I live where Moses
did his dirty work, I was horrified by some of the things that Caro
described which, if I ever knew them, I've forgotten. So I have these 4
books about Johnson on my wish list. Somehow, I doubt I'll ever get to read
them. I just now started Jill Leper's These Truths, which is a recent,
popular, easy-to-read book about American history. I've read some of her
articles and heard her interviewed. She's lovely.
I think I'd rather read history just now, than current events. (smile)
Miriam