The biographer of Robert Moses is about to publish his fourth volume on Lyndon Johnson and he's running late, Chris Jones writes in an exquisitely detailed Esquire profile: "Caro knits together his fingers until he knows what his book is about. Once he is certain, he will write one or two paragraphs — he aims for one, but he usually writes two, a consistent Caro math — that capture his ambitions." Also, CJR's 2002 Caro profile revisited.
April 22, 2012