In the Shack with Robert Caro

19 pointsposted 14 hours ago
by samclemens
(curbed.com)

12 Comments

huitzitziltzin

13 hours ago

If you haven’t read them, they’re all worth the time.

Especially if you ever have lived or will live in Texas the first volume of the LBJ series is essential.

sharadov

12 hours ago

I hope to read the Power Broker some day. Listening to the series on the 99% Invisible podcast until then..

TimK65

2 hours ago

I have multiple copies, one a first edition that I bought at the sadly departed New York Bound Books shop, and have read it several times.

Don't be intimidated by the length. Caro's writing draws you in so effectively that the pages fly by. It's extraordinary.

slothtrop

11 hours ago

As amazing as it is long

idontwantthis

10 hours ago

It just sounds upsetting to me. A glimpse of the built world we used to have and could have still had if not for one extraordinary psychopath.

pj_mukh

13 hours ago

"A couple of bookcases, a plywood work surface, corkboard with outlines tacked up, an old brass lamp, an underworked laptop for emails, a Smith-Corona typewriter. "

I wonder if software engineers would pay for some software (or dedicated hardware) to turn their laptops into a coding typewriter with maybe just a GPT connection to probe documentation and whatever tunnels they need to work on internet deployments.

I'd love to experiment with something like this.