At age 83, Robert Caro pulls back the curtains on his process, in his new book "Working." He also answers the question he is asked most often: why does it take him so long to write his books? Caro is the author of the Robert Moses biography "The Power Broker" and "The Years of Lyndon Johnson," The biographer, who has spent much time doing what he does best in the Allen Room of The New York Public Library, returns to share some stories of his own with William P. Kelly, The New York Public Library’s Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries.
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Building Movements with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Shaun King
Reforming America's Prisons
Dr. John Carlos Has No Regrets
Debut Novelist Akwaeke Emezi Recenters Reality
Michelle McNamara and Patton Oswalt's search for the Golden State Killer
Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Neel Mukherjee Tells Ghost Stories
Tayari Jones Redefines American Marriage
Black Lives Matter Co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Networking with Niall Ferguson and Gillian Tett
The Hunt for Timothy Leary
Jessica B. Harris and Carla Hall
Naomi Klein & Martin Breum: Climate Change and the Arctic Imagination
Masha Gessen—The Stories of a Life
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol" (Rebroadcast)
Muhammad Yunus & Jeffrey Sachs
Nikki Giovani & Joy-Ann Reid
Stephen Greenblatt & Tony Kushner: Adam and Eve in the Teeth of Time
Kevin Young & Bunk—Hoaxes, Hooey, Hocum; Cons, Plagiarists, and Forgers
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