by Robert A. Caro
Caro reflects on five decades researching Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, sharing the methods behind his maxim to 'turn every page.' Caro argues that understanding power requires exhaustive archival work, patient interviewing, and walking the physical landscapes where history happened.
In this collection, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing references 3 other books.
It draws on The Guns of August, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and The Soul of a New Machine.
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Caro directly credits Tuchman's Guns of August as the book that showed him what narrative history could be, a founding influence he returns to in Working
Caro positions his archival methodology alongside Shirer's Third Reich research as an exemplar of documentary-driven history
Caro's approach to embedding with subjects parallels Tracy Kidder's immersive method in The Soul of a New Machine
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