Dwarkesh Patel(@dwarkesh_sp):The master biographer reflects at 91. The Robert Caro interview. 0:00:00 – How Caro gets people to talk 0:05:03 – Does America need a little more Moses today? 0:12:42 – Moses the young idealist 0:17:57 – Watching Moses lose power 0:24:01 – Did Moses realize he was changing? 0:27:53 – Building during the Great Depression 0:32:51 – The threats and promises of Lyndon Johnson 0:36:08 – Could Kennedy have passed Johnson’s laws? 0:41:00 – Getting a book down to one sentence 0:46:21 – All the material that never made it into the books 0:52:59

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The master biographer reflects at 91. The Robert Caro interview. 0:00:00 – How Caro gets people to talk 0:05:03 – Does America need a little more Moses today? 0:12:42 – Moses the young idealist 0:17:57 – Watching Moses lose power 0:24:01 – Did Moses realize he was changing? 0:27:53 – Building during the Great Depression 0:32:51 – The threats and promises of Lyndon Johnson 0:36:08 – Could Kennedy have passed Johnson’s laws? 0:41:00 – Getting a book down to one sentence 0:46:21 – All the material that never made it into the books 0:52:59 – Loneliness