[issybird]

Originally Posted by Luffy

My 5 star review of the best book I've read this year : The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro:-

Spoiler:

Robert A. Caro is the best biographer in the history of the world. That's not hyperbole, that's using GPS to locate the author's credentials. This book is an intellectual tour de force by a tireless researcher who has enough flair to magisterially concoct a view into his subject in astounding details.

This book was written in 4k and beyond. I'm grateful that I had the ripening wherewithal to know about the project that was this biography. The topic was so fascinating that the historical figures look airbrushed in their narration. Such is the color imprinted and injected into the life of greats and lesser participants in this nonfiction book.

I won't urge you to read this. You'll count your blessings if you do. But this is not a romance, not a cozy, not a thriller, not a horror, not a historical mystery. This is what unites us non scholar readers and reading this book makes one an intellectual for the duration of the book. Whether you stay so is up to the life that you lead. I myself, frankly my dear, am not one.

I loved his wonderful biography of Robert Moses, but I thought even that long. Are you up for four more LBJ tomes? I look at the opus and I just can’t commit.