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UTUSN

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2. I admire your RE-reading. I can't take that.

Reply to hifiguy (Reply #1)

Wed May 23, 2012, 12:52 AM

May 2012

I *do* highlight and later use a couple of pinnacle paragraphs for clinchers in discussions, the same couple of paragraphs, the whole of the book boiled down to just that.

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Whew, just finished (reading) CARO's volume 4 of his LBJ biography. [View all] UTUSN May 2012 OP

I just re-read the first three volumes last fall. hifiguy May 2012 #1

I admire your RE-reading. I can't take that. UTUSN May 2012 #2

Well, it had been nine years since I read them hifiguy May 2012 #3

There's a good feature on Caro in this month's Esquire. subterranean May 2012 #4

There is an outstanding BookTV video segment on The Power Broker. EFerrari May 2012 #5

Caro says he was harsher on Moses back then because of the times during which he wrote the book Cooley Hurd May 2012 #7

Wow, he would be less harsh now?!1 It's pretty hard to put the harsh genie back in the bottle UTUSN May 2012 #8

What I love about Caro is that he doesn't run from complexity. EFerrari May 2012 #9

Want to borrow mine? It's all highlighted!1 (( )) n/t UTUSN May 2012 #11

thank you so much for that link, EFerrari. dixiegrrrrl May 2012 #12

My pleasure! EFerrari May 2012 #13

Great post! I love Robert Caro! I've read 3 of the 4 LBJ books and The Power Broker Cooley Hurd May 2012 #6

Robert Caro is undoubtedly one of the great non-fiction authors of our time RFKHumphreyObama May 2012 #10

Viet Nam era is supposed to be next dixiegrrrrl May 2012 #14