{"id":4518,"date":"2009-10-06T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2009-10-05T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T23:41:00","slug":"three-more-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/three-more-years","title":{"rendered":"Three More Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a 35-minute video of Charlie Rose&#8217;s interview with Robert Caro last April, at the end of which Mr. Caro mentions that the final volume of his LBJ biography won&#8217;t be published for another three years.<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"width: 400px; height: 326px;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?showShareButtons=true&amp;docId=1729290374156984427%3A124000%3A2129000&amp;hl=en\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That should give you enough time to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0394720245?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0394720245\">The Power Broker<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" gfzaptzxqyqabezgbyic gfzaptzxqyqabezgbyic\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0394720245\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, his phenomenal biography of Robert Moses, and the first three volumes of the Johnson bio! I think I&#8217;m going to start the LBJ books this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously: If you want to develop an understanding of how political power works in America, you really need to read Mr. Caro&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a 35-minute video of Charlie Rose&#8217;s interview with Robert Caro last April, at the end of which Mr. Caro mentions that the final volume of his LBJ biography won&#8217;t be published for another three years. That should give you enough time to read The Power Broker, his phenomenal biography of Robert Moses, and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/three-more-years\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three More Years!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[865,864,275],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-explicit","category-urban-issues","tag-charlie-rose","tag-lyndon-b-johnson","tag-robert-caro"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1aS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2318,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lifes-work","url_meta":{"origin":4518,"position":0},"title":"Life&#8217;s work","author":"Gil","date":"August 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier this year, I had variations of the following e-mail exchange with several NYC literary figures I know: GIL: Just wondering: do you know Robert Caro? 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