bOne of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer. --iThe Sunday Times iLondon pFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofi The Power Brokeri and The Years of Lyndon Johnson an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books.b pNow in paperback, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses and to begin discovering the extent of the political power Moses wielded the combination of discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the vast holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas his encounters with witnesses, including longtime residents wrenchingly displaced by the construction of Moses' Cross-Bronx Expressway and Lady Bird Johnson acknowledging the beauty and influence of one of LBJ's mistresses. He gratefully remembers