Quote by Robert Caro
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I bel

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. – Robert Caro

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You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybodys switching to a computer. And Im sort of laughed at. – Robert Caro

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Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency. – Robert Caro

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Trust
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There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson – real lows. And its never come back. Its a trend that, if youre liberal, is really discouraging. – Robert Caro

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History begins in novel and ends in essay. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. – John Moody

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. – Gustave Flaubert

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